Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#education

A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#contentment #attitude

Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#corporate #vocation #career

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

#cancer

You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#life

It is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#justification #wrong #experience

Education doesn't make you smarter. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#education

The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#honesty #truth #truth-telling #courage

My wish for you... is that your skeptic-eclectic brain be flooded with the light of truth. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#prisoner #russian #zek #skepticism

Someone that you have deprived of everything is no longer in your power. He is once again entirely free. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#freedom #power #freedom