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.
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 id… - Vissarion Belinsky
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 id…
- Vissarion Belinsky
I am strongly convinced that the people or society is the best and the most unerring critic. - Vissarion Belinsky
I am strongly convinced that the people or society is the best and the most unerring critic.
Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. - Vissarion Belinsky
Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas.
Children's books are written for upbringing...but upbringing is a great thing; it decides the fate of the human being. - Vissarion Belinsky
Children's books are written for upbringing...but upbringing is a great thing; it decides the fate of the human being.
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 purpo… - Vissarion Belinsky
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 purpo…
But in this world of morally-warped phenomena there are rare and happy exceptions of truly great magnitude, which always pay dearly for their exclusi… - Vissarion Belinsky
But in this world of morally-warped phenomena there are rare and happy exceptions of truly great magnitude, which always pay dearly for their exclusi…
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 it… - Vissarion Belinsky
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 it…
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 o… - Vissarion Belinsky
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 o…
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 nat… - Vissarion Belinsky
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 nat…
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