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Secondly, the citizen is called upon to voluntarily recognize and observe the laws of his homeland, because this is the only way to maintain law and order and at the same time remain free in it.

Nature keeps us at a respectful distance from its mysteries, and gives us only knowledge of a few superficial qualities of objects, hiding their essence from us.

There is such an expression - slow

In addition to reading on Buddhist philosophy, I get acquainted with the translation (from English) of the manuscript of a Japanese officer who translated from the original a book of strategy by the Chinese greatest military thinker Sun (Sun Tzu) of the 6th century AD. Song, or Bu, is completely unknown in the West, but he is the founder of the doctrine of war in the East. […] One of the books (or rather, chapters) of Suna speaks of winning and winning the war without military operations, without battles. Let me quote a few words from this book: “The highest art of war lies in subjugating the will of the enemy without fighting; the most skillful commander will force the enemy to surrender without a fight; he captures his fortresses, but does not besiege them; he creates confusion and instills distrust in the enemy army; it causes interference in the administration of the enemy army by rulers and civil authorities; it creates political combinations among neighboring states; he makes the enemy army dangerous for his state; and finally, he destroys the enemy army, depriving it of the ability to resist, and with its untouched army captures the enemy's possessions. I don't know if Wilhelm and Hindenburg studied Sun, but since the "Great Russian Revolution" we have been experiencing the application of Sun's ideas in practice, this is the essence of our revolution.

The true essence of a person is made up of those images and ideas that he awakens in us.

There are many things in your heart that you can never tell another person. They are you, your personal joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You belittle yourself, your inner being, when you tell them about it.

To reject war is to reject the human.

The most terrible thing about our tormentor was the discrepancy between the initial impression of him and his essence. When we met Victor, we could not suspect him of a real tyrant. When he and Alexei offered to give us a lift, he seemed an ordinary, slightly awkward uncle who had never offended anyone in his life. But when we really got to know him, a completely different person opened up to us. If he wanted something, he became completely ruthless and was capable of anything to achieve his goal.

Forgiveness in her smile, the warmth of her hands, sugar in her hair - that was the essence of this girl.

I can see your true nature.

This is a lover's alibi.

Your essence.

In order to see the essence, one must see it differently. He was doomed to see the wrong way - by fate, genes, nationality, life, time - everything. All this removed him from the world - hence the extraordinary vigilance.

It is not true that with language we exhaust our feelings. The language is always not enough for those fleetingness that is our essence. As the power of music lies in the transcendence of its designations, so the power of thought lies in the ambiguity of words.