Author of quotes: Vissarion Grigoryevich Belinsky. Page 4

The stronger one is, the higher the moral, the bolder he looks at their weaknesses and disadvantages.

The point is not to never make mistakes, but to be able to recognize them and be generous, feel free to follow your conscience.

The mind becomes of man above all animals, but only the mind makes him a man to superiority. The mind is not sweeping then the "exact" Sciences and not understanding anything coming out of the close circle of "useful" and "urgent", the mind comprehends the infinite sphere overqualified and superstition, makes clear the incomprehensible obvious and the uncertain, certain - "inaccurate".

The higher the poet, the more it belongs to society, among whom he was born, the more closely linked with the development, direction and even the nature of his talent with the historical development of society.

Considering the literature of any people, it is impossible to separate its development from the development of society. This especially should apply to Russian literature.

One of the greatest and most sacred principles of true morality lies in the religious respect for human dignity in every person, without distinction of persons, primarily for the fact that he - man and then for his personal dignity.

Patriotism is not about big voices and common areas, but in the hot sense of love of country that can speak without shouting and is not in the same awe of a good, but painful hostility toward the bad inevitably happens in every ground, therefore, in any country.

I realize now that the poet does not need to be in love to write about love. Now I understand that we are best able to talk about what we would like, but what we have and what we don't know how to talk about what we complete.

The purpose of the human Comedy - to prove that a woman's heart cannot be linked to itself by tyranny and the love of women.

People clearly expressed, when it is possessed by the idea, but even more when he owns the idea.

The greatest treasure is a good library.

"But I am given to another" is given, and not given away! Eternal fidelity - to whom and in what? Loyalty to those relationships which constitute a profanation of feelings and feminine purity, because some relationships not sanctified by love, in the highest degree immoral... But at us somehow all it is glued together: poetry - and life, love and marriage of convenience, a life heart - and strict execution of the external duties, inwardly break every hour.

To educate means not only to feed and to nurse, but also to give direction to the heart and mind - and this isn't the point of mother nature, science, development, accessibility to all human interests?

The reason given to man so he wisely lived, not only in order to show that it is unreasonable lives.