Author of quotes: Igor Ivanovich Garin. Page 57

Strive for this!

Already in his childhood, the musical idols of the future philosopher were Handel, Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn, Schubert and Mendelssohn. With his characteristic maximalism, he called musically insensitive people "lifeless creatures like animals."

When you know how to control yourself, you begin to control the whole world.

Have pity on this extraordinary man, have pity on him for the fact that he lived in such a miserable time that all his life he had to incessantly engage in polemics.

Everything for him is a bridge and a striving for the far. He invites to love the country of our children; he forbids looking to where we are going; our honor is that we understand where we are approaching in children.

We have abandoned all the ideals with which someone could probably feel quite comfortable in this vague, murky, transitional period.

The improvement of philosophy is coming through its vitality, the improvement of life is coming through the philosophy of life. In life, philosophy must find its flesh, and life in philosophy must find its spirit.

Those thinkers, in whose opinion all the stars move in circular paths, are not among the deepest thinkers; he who looks into himself as into an infinitely vast world space and carries the milky way within himself, knows how unplanned all these milky ways are; they lead to chaos and the labyrinth of being.

The history of philosophy is the eternal rewriting of history.

The representative of the spirit does not agree to be determined by society and the state, it is determined from within. Philosophy is an expression of spiritual freedom, this is its main social meaning. If a society values human independence, justice and truth about itself, then it should value any form of dissent as the highest form of social wealth.

Long ago I came to the conclusion that the predisposition to certain mental worlds is irrational or genetic: you cannot convince a goat by weaning it from a goat.

Philosophy is the world. But the world is subjective, personal, confessional. There is no philosophy that would be recognized by everyone. If life is a struggle, then wisdom is its image, symbol, spiritual emblem.

I'm not sure there are parallel physical worlds, but virtual parallel worlds of philosophies are the greatest of subjective realities. Any knowledge is paradigmatic, historical, biased.

They take from me: but do I touch their soul?