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

Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas.

- Vissarion Belinsky

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

- 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…

- 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…

- 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…

- 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…

- 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…

- Vissarion Belinsky