Author of quotes: Fazil Iskander

You have to be either very stupid or very brave to turn your back on the enemy.

All people are related to the universal pursuit of enjoyment. If in exceptional cases a person hates pleasure, he enjoys his hatred of pleasure.

Western man is closer to a police mindset than the Russian people. That is why Russian society needs more police and more it produces.
But that's why the police are bad at it. No gift of thinking of the police, and the police does not feel the boundaries of the law of violence.

People must feel that his country began not yesterday and not tomorrow end. So it is more comfortable to live in eternity and it is easier to defend their land.

People can not live without shrines, reasoned Jamhub - faith in the main Shrine produces a lot of small shrines that are necessary for everyday life: the Shrine of motherhood, the Shrine of respect for elders, the Shrine of loyalty in friendship, Shrine of loyalty to the given word and the like. And when the lost the main Shrine, is gradually lost, and all the other people comes down to damage. People are starting to hate each other and to please only yourself or those stronger than them to even better to please themselves.

The higher the bird flies, the more it feeds on carrion.

People prevent to love yourself.

Naive people think that the great Gogol, creating images Russian freaks who mourned. Claim that describing nozdryov, Elijah, Sobakevich, Gogol suffered the highest artistic and human joy. Of course, waking up, and seeing he created the freak show, he is somewhat taken aback and confused. But, creating them, he felt only joy.

To survive, man for too long, it was more important to develop a resourcefulness of mind than the divine energy of shame.

The inability of the most amazing, usually first love. Apparently, it is so conceived from above. That would make people to be happy? The unquenched love of fate gives us a sniff of happiness and discarding it in the unattainable distance, says the dog, "Fetch!" We're looking for.

So to be able to live your life so that all or almost all around you loved is the highest valor mind! A mind subordinate to the soul, it is the higher mind. The goal of humanity - a good man, and no other purpose there can be.

... children are people not yet learned to lie, and the elderly - people who have no reason to lie.

... to come and tell the person who is much older than me, he acted like a scoundrel and a fool besides, I could not. It is difficult to overcome the sucked mother's milk. But write can. From this I conclude that work is a punishment and in a broader sense. We threw in the past a strong line with a hook to pull the enemy, but, alas, the bait is our own heart. On the other he does not bite.

I have noticed that in the humanitarian area, most often this type of villain with surprise. Here's what I think about it. The nature of art has a natural need to stay in a certain ethical elevation. But if the soul of the Humanities does not have the internal inclination to remain at this altitude, it is serving her as a duty, accumulates evil emotion and in the end the meanness, sudden snake bite balances the hated heights. Catharsis of evil.