Author of quotes: Igor Ivanovich Garin. Page 3

Selfishness is the most reliable property of human life. With his help, the politician, the soldier and the king ordered the world. This is the main melody of humanity.

Apart from the losers and the lucky ones, all people live equally badly, but they live badly on different floors.

Since the world has stood, nothing has arisen solely from spiritual purity and good impulses, but everything only from meanness, which over time grinds off its horns, so that in the end, even these great and pure thoughts are obtained from it!

The human being is equally capable of cannibalism and criticism of pure reason.

There are no more people in Germany, but only occupations.

The poet must constantly improve. Skill is talent multiplied by labor. The musician degrades without playing, the Poet stops without creating.

Life is short, but mastery is long to learn.

Good poetry is never created in the forms of twenty years ago, for if a poet writes in the old manner, he draws from an outdated life. And once life changes, both the form and the content of poetry change. The new poetry must be completely devoid of the sentimentality and demeanor of the old. It should be transparent and strict.

All the writers of the past were enslaved by reality, they only copied the world, while the modern writer can ignore it and create his own, in which he is a complete master.

plague. Thought is a wonderful thing for philosophy, but it is relative. There is no ultimate truth. Logic is speculation. The logic is flawed through and through. Everything seen is deceiving. The world is in the hands of bandits, the world is insane, it is dangerous and incurable.

Writing is just talking about what you know.

There is no was - only there is. If it existed, there would be no longing or sadness.

Culture has always been, albeit different, but a single culture. Culture has not only many paths, but also many dead ends.

Belief in different gods does not make people different if they are honest with themselves. Faiths and gods are many, sincerity is one.