In military science there is a principle more important than "Forward": it is that the task should be proportionate to the means.

Cracks make caves collapse.

Nothing worthy can be built on a neglect of higher meanings and on a relativistic view of concepts and culture as a whole. Indeed, something greater than a phenomenon confined to art can be discerned shimmering here beneath the surface - shimmering not with light but with an ominous crimson glow.

To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good.

Many of you have already found out, and others will find out in the course of their lives, that truth eludes us if we do not concentrate our attention totally on it's pursuit. But even while it eludes us, the illusion of knowing it still lingers and leads to many misunderstandings. Also, truth seldom is pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter.

A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.

I leaf through the ancient philosophers and find my newest discoveries there.