“A society which is based on the letter of the law and never reaches any higher is taking very scarce advantage of the high level of human possibilities" --
A WORLD SPLIT APART: Solzhenitsyn's Commencement Address, Harvard University, June 8, 1978”
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A WORLD SPLIT APART: Solzhenitsyn's Commencement Address, Harvard University, June 8, 1978”
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“I have learned to follow another voice, to be alone and to understand things - maybe to be alone and to be misunderstood.”
― A Suitable Boy
― A Suitable Boy
“It is the power to focus the consciousness on a given spot, and hold it there Attention is the first and indispensable step in all knowledge.”
― The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
― The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
“In the teaching of socialism 'a will to the denial of life' is but poorly concealed: botched men and races they must be who have devised a teaching of this sort. In fact, I even wish a few experiments might be made to show that in socialistic society life denies itself, and itself cuts away its own roots. The earth is big enough and man is still unexhausted enough for a practical lesson of this sort and demonstratio ad absurdum― even if it were accomplished only by a vast expenditure of lives―to seem worth while to me.”
― The Will to Power
― The Will to Power
“Nothing in all creation is so like God as silence.”
― The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
― The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
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