MAXIM GORKY (1868-1936), A PROMINENT TWENTIETH CENTURY RUSSIAN WRITER.
“The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.”
“Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man — Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?”
“One has to be able to count, if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.”
“You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.”
“Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.”
“Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.”
“Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.”
“Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future”
“The illness of a doctor is always worse than the illnesses of his patients. The patients only feel, but the doctor, as well as feeling, has a pretty good idea of the destructive effect of the disease on his constitution. This is a case in which knowledge brings death nearer.”
“This fear is what is the ruin of us all. And some dominate us; they take advantage of our fear and frighten us still more. Mark this: as long as people are afraid, they will rot like the birches in the marsh. We must grow bold; it is time!”
“Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.”
“In the monotony of everyday existence grief comes as a holiday, and a fire is an entertainment. A scratch embellishes an empty face.”
“The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.”
“Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.”
“Politics is the soil in which the nettle of poisonous enmity, evil suspicions, shameless lies, slander, morbid ambitions, and disrespect for the individual grows rapidly and luxuriantly. Name anything bad in man and it is precisely in the soil of political struggle that it grows with particular liveliness and abundance.”
“All that is called Destiny or Fate is none other than the result of our thoughtlessness and our mistrust of ourselves; we should know that all that is created on earth is created by its sole Master and Laborer -- Man.”
“Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty ... each and every one of us.”
“The poor are always rich in children, and in the dirt and ditches of this street there are groups of them from morning to night, hungry, naked and dirty. Children are the living flowers of the earth, but these had the appearance of flowers that have faded prematurely, because they grew in ground where there was no healthy nourishment.”
“Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?”
“Our most merciless enemy is our past.”
“Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.”
“The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.”
“To speak the truth is the most difficult of all arts, for in its "pure" form, not connected with the interests of individuals, groups, classes, or nations, truth is almost completely unsuitable for use by the Philistine and is unacceptable to him.”
“Winter is approaching. Yes, it is approaching ... How to live?”
“When one loves somebody everything is clear— where to go, what to do— it all takes care of itself and one doesn't have to ask anybody about anything.”
“Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.”
“Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.”
“In war it is necessary to kill as many people as possible -- such is the cynical logic of war. Brutality in a fight is unavoidable; have you seen how cruelly children fight in the streets?”
“The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.”
~ Maxim Gorky, Untimely Thoughts
“Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man — Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?”
~ Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths
“One has to be able to count, if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.”
~ Maxim Gorky, The Zykovs
“You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.”
~ Maxim Gorky, The Zykovs
“Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.”
~ Maxim Gorky, The I.V.Stalin White Sea - Baltic Sea Canal (1934)
“Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.”
~ Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths
“Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.”
~ Maxim Gorky, The Lower Depths
“Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future”
~ Maxim Gorky, "Creatures that Once were Men”
“The illness of a doctor is always worse than the illnesses of his patients. The patients only feel, but the doctor, as well as feeling, has a pretty good idea of the destructive effect of the disease on his constitution. This is a case in which knowledge brings death nearer.”
~ Maxim Gorky, Literary Portraits
“This fear is what is the ruin of us all. And some dominate us; they take advantage of our fear and frighten us still more. Mark this: as long as people are afraid, they will rot like the birches in the marsh. We must grow bold; it is time!”
~ Maxim Gorky, The Mother
“Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.”
~ Maxim Gorky, Untimely Thoughts: Essays on Revolution, Culture, and the Bolsheviks, 1917-1918
“In the monotony of everyday existence grief comes as a holiday, and a fire is an entertainment. A scratch embellishes an empty face.”
~ Maxim Gorky, My Childhood
“The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.”
~ Maxim Gorky, Her Lover
“Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.”
~ Maxim Gorky, Untimely Thoughts
“Politics is the soil in which the nettle of poisonous enmity, evil suspicions, shameless lies, slander, morbid ambitions, and disrespect for the individual grows rapidly and luxuriantly. Name anything bad in man and it is precisely in the soil of political struggle that it grows with particular liveliness and abundance.”
~ Maxim Gorky, Untimely Thoughts
“All that is called Destiny or Fate is none other than the result of our thoughtlessness and our mistrust of ourselves; we should know that all that is created on earth is created by its sole Master and Laborer -- Man.”
~ Maxim Gorky, Untimely Thoughts
“Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty ... each and every one of us.”
~ Maxim Gorky, Untimely Thoughts
“The poor are always rich in children, and in the dirt and ditches of this street there are groups of them from morning to night, hungry, naked and dirty. Children are the living flowers of the earth, but these had the appearance of flowers that have faded prematurely, because they grew in ground where there was no healthy nourishment.”
~ Maxim Gorky, "Creatures that Once were Men"
“Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?”
~ Maxim Gorky, Untimely Thoughts
“Our most merciless enemy is our past.”
~ Maxim Gorky, Untimely Thoughts
“Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.”
~ Maxim Gorky, Untimely Thoughts
“The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.”
~ Maxim Gorky, Untimely Thoughts
“To speak the truth is the most difficult of all arts, for in its "pure" form, not connected with the interests of individuals, groups, classes, or nations, truth is almost completely unsuitable for use by the Philistine and is unacceptable to him.”
~ Maxim Gorky, Untimely Thoughts
“Winter is approaching. Yes, it is approaching ... How to live?”
~ Maxim Gorky, “Creatures That Once Were Men”
“When one loves somebody everything is clear— where to go, what to do— it all takes care of itself and one doesn't have to ask anybody about anything.”
~ Maxim Gorky, Jerry Dorsman's How to Achieve Peace of Mind
“Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.”
~ Maxim Gorky, Untimely Thoughts
“Intellectual force is qualitatively the first and foremost productive force, and concern for its rapid growth should be the ardent concern of all classes.”
~ Maxim Gorky, Untimely Thoughts
“In war it is necessary to kill as many people as possible -- such is the cynical logic of war. Brutality in a fight is unavoidable; have you seen how cruelly children fight in the streets?”
~ Maxim Gorky, Untimely Thoughts
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