Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Lying, Believe, Maturity

• The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul...

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Spiritual, Lying, Thinking

  "The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, (Part IV), 1973.

• To reject this inhuman Communist ideology is simply to be a human being. Such a rejection is more than a political act. It is a protest of our souls against those who would have us forget the concepts of good and evil.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  War, Evil, Rejection

• Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Men, Goal, Soul

  Interview With Joseph Pearce, www.catholiceducation.org. February, 2003.

• He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Cutting, Opportunity, Men

• You should rejoice that you're in prison. Here you have time to think about your soul.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Thinking, Soul, Prison

  "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich". Book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 1962.

• Freedom! To fill people's mailboxes, eyes, ears and brains with commercial rubbish against their will, television programs that are impossible to watch with a sense of coherence. Freedom! To force information on people, taking no account of their right not to accept it or their right of peace of mind. Freedom! To spit in the eyes and souls of passersby with advertisements.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Eye, Mind Freedom, People

  "The Exile Returns" by David Remnick, www.newyorker.com. February 14, 1994.

• [He] understood the people in a new way...The people is not everyone who speaks our language, nor yet the elect marked by the fiery stamp of genius. Not by birth, not by the work of one's hands, not by the wings of education is one elected into the people. But by one's inner self. Everyone forges his inner self year after year. One must try to temper, to cut, to polish one's soul so as to become a human being. And thereby become a tiny particle of one's own people.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Cutting, Self, Hands

• Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Spiritual, Yield, Long

• Thus, literature, together with language, preserves and protects a nation's soul.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Soul, Together, Literature

• Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Spiritual, Art, Soul

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