If We Live In A State Of

When The Whole Discussion Of "developing A National Idea" Hastily Began In Post-soviet Russia, I Tried To Pour Cold Water On It With The Objection That, After All The Devastating Losses We Had Experienced, It Would Be Quite Sufficient To Have Just One Task: The Preservation Of A Dying People.

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.

The Meaning Of Earthly Existence Lies Not, As We Have Grown Used To Thinking, In Prospering, But In The Development Of The Soul...

Why Should I Trust You? We Haven't Drunk From The Same Bowl Of Soup.

Violence Does Not And Cannot Flourish By Itself; It Is Inevitably Intertwined With Lying.