Author of quotes: Dmitry Sergeevich Likhachev. Page 2

Memory - the basis of conscience and morality, memory - based culture, "savings" culture, memory is one of the foundations of poetry - an aesthetic understanding of cultural values. To store a memory to cherish memory is our moral duty to ourselves and to our descendants. Memory is our wealth.

Nationalism... the most difficult of the misfortunes of the human race. Like any evil, it lurks, lives in darkness and only pretends that born of love for their country. And it really anger, hatred towards other Nations and his own people who did not share nationalist views.

About good people is very easy and fun to say and write. Because the good people are very different and interesting. And bad all the same and uninteresting.

Keep the youth to old age. Keep youth in their old, but acquire young friends. Keep youth in their skills, habits, their young "openness to people", spontaneity. Keep her around and don't think that adult you will become "a very, very different" and will live in a different world.

First of all, one General remark. To learn how to ride a bike, need to ride a bike. To learn to write, to write!

Our language is an essential part of our General behavior in life. As the man says, and once we can easily judge with whom we are dealing, we can determine the degree of intelligence of the person, the degree of psychological balance, the degree of the possible "inferiority complex".

Sloppiness in clothing is, above all, disrespectful to the people around you, and disrespectful to himself.

Love is supposed to be smart. It should be connected with the ability to notice flaws, to deal with imperfections in a loved one, and other people. It should not be blind. Blind enthusiasm can lead to dire consequences. Mother, all admired and poudreuse around your child, can raise a moral monster. Blind admiration for Germany led to Nazism, blind admiration for Italy is to fascism.

Be truthful. Seeking to cheat others first of all deceived himself. It is naive to think that he believed, but that people really were just being polite. But lies always gives himself the lie is always "felt", and you will not only become nasty, worse - you're funny.

Greed is the oblivion of self-esteem, is an attempt to put their financial interests above himself, it is mental cocoboot, creepy orientation of mind, it is extremely limiting, mental gehlot, wretchedness, jaundiced view of the world, bitterness to yourself and others, forgetfulness of the partnership. Greed in man is not even funny, it's demeaning. Other business - sensible thrift; greed - its a distortion, its a disease. Frugality possesses the mind, greed takes possession of the mind.

Frugality possesses the mind, greed takes possession of the mind.

Good cannot be stupid.

Need to be a patriot, not a nationalist. No need to hate each others family because I love my. No need to hate other people, because you're a patriot. Between patriotism and nationalism is a profound difference. In the first - the love of his country, the second - a hatred of all others.

Unshared joy is not a joy. Man spoils the happiness when he experiences it himself.