Power of imagination Quote by Vladimir Mayakovsky

“Georgi Plekhanov’s classic On the Role of the Individual in History.”

— Ray Dalio

“Art, science, love, inspiration, ideals—choose out all the words with which humanity is wont, or has been in the past, to be consoled or…

— Lev Shestov

“There, on a low bed, the sheet flung back, dressed in a pair of pink one-piece zippyjamas, lay Lenina, fast asleep and so beautiful…

— Aldous Huxley

“So you, too, like fruitcake? (RW on meeting Lenin in Zurich during World War I.)”

— Robert Walser

“They looked cheerful in the photograph, Lenin and his wife. As though they had a new refrigerator in their drawing room, and a down…

— Arundhati Roy

However much an ideologue tries to bury [Lenin] beneath a proof by historical analysis, there is always this one man standing their on the…

— Louis Althusser

“Morally, there was the extreme disappointment at the failure of the classical socialist ideal. The great ideal of Marxism had failed to materialize. The…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

“He was one of those persons whom one loves not because of some lustrous streak of talent (this retired businessman possessed none), but because…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“I am never forget the day I first meet the great Lobachevsky. In one word he told me secret of success in mathematics: Plagiarize!…

— Tom Lehrer

“Alexander. Here he is, before he was Tatiana’s, at the age of twenty, getting his medal of valor for bringing back Yuri Stepanov during…

— Paullina Simons

I see this quality [real interest and joy] in the work of [Pavel] Chekhov, of course, and [Alexei] Tolstoy and really just about any…

— George Saunders

“[...] what Ruskin judged to be the twin purposes of art: to make sense of pain and to fathom the sources of beauty.”

— Alain de Botton