Vissarion Belinsky famous quotes

Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas.
-- Vissarion Belinsky

#Ideas #Worry #Incarnation

I am strongly convinced that the people or society is the best and the most unerring critic.
-- Vissarion Belinsky

#Freedom #People #Critics

In science one must search for ideas. If there are no ideas, there is no science. A knowledge of facts is only valuable in so far as facts conceal ideas: facts without ideas are just the sweepings of the brain and the memory.
-- Vissarion Belinsky

#Memories #Ideas #Brain

Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge - they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely.
-- Vissarion Belinsky

#Inspiration #Creativity #Ideas

The object of a comedy is not to correct morals or ridicule the vices of society; no, a comedy should depict the discrepancies between life and purpose, should be the fruit of bitter indignation aroused by the degradation of human dignity, should be sarcasm, and not an epigram, convulsive laughter and not an amused grin, should be written with bile and not diluted salt, in a word, it should embrace life in its highest significance.
-- Vissarion Belinsky

#Laughter #Sarcasm #Purpose

But in this world of morally-warped phenomena there are rare and happy exceptions of truly great magnitude, which always pay dearly for their exclusiveness and fall a prey to their own superiority. Natures of genius, themselves unaware of their genius, they are relentlessly killed by an unconscious society as an expiatory sacrifice to its own sins … Such is Pushkin’s Tatiana.
-- Vissarion Belinsky

#Fall #Sacrifice #Genius

In order to have a literature, a nation must live, not merely on the practical, but on the moral and spiritual plane as well, contributing through its national life to the development of some side of the universal spirit of man.
-- Vissarion Belinsky

#Spiritual #Men #Order

It is apparent at first glance that in The Double there is more creative talent and depth of thought than in Poor Folk. But meanwhile the consensus of St. Petersburg readers is that this novel is intolerably long-winded and therefore terribly boring...
-- Vissarion Belinsky

#Long #Creative #Depth

Children's books are written for upbringing...but upbringing is a great thing; it decides the fate of the human being.
-- Vissarion Belinsky

#Children #Book #Fate

A false idea is not only one which is absolutely subjective but one which is absolutely objective.

It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.

I said, ‘There’s one idea I’ve been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It’s Woodrow Wilson.’

Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last.

Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.

Maybe a first love exists to reaffirm the best parts of yourself, the choices you made when you didn't worry about the consequences. Maybe a first love exists to remind you to be brave in the moment, to stand up for your feelings, instead of shrinking back in the face of potential loneliness.

I must have been a failed football coach in a previous incarnation.

A great composition to me is.. an incarnation of a genius, of all that was ever in him of the slightest consequence.

By virtue of Creation, and still more the Incarnation, nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see.