Vissarion Belinsky Quotes

#1. Love and hate, black and white,
Right or wrong, who is right?
Some smoke joints to anoint their brain
To the vanishing point ... so they won't go insane.

Pharoahe Monch

#2. 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 national if you follow your inspiration freely.

Vissarion Belinsky

#3. 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.

Vissarion Belinsky

#4. 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 of St. Petersburg readers is that this novel is intolerably long-winded and therefore terribly boring ...

Vissarion Belinsky

#5. I see what you mean, but I do not think what you think.

Mason Cooley

#6. Everyone should have a philosophy for living better.

Compay Segundo

#7. Damn to him who ever lived to wear a Halter!

Bartholomew Roberts

#8. I am strongly convinced that the people or society is the best and the most unerring critic.

Vissarion Belinsky

#9. In the history of the nation, there has never been a political party so ridiculous as today's Democrats. It's as if all the brain-damaged people in America got together and formed a voting bloc.

Ann Coulter

#10. As a result of my hike, I am much more inclined to "do" things. I will have fewer "should have done"s even if it means incurring some "wish I hadn't"s.

David Miller

#11. You look at all the great players that they've had and the potential of playing in Yankee Stadium.

Nick Johnson

#12. 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 its national life to the development of some side of the universal spirit of man.

Vissarion Belinsky

#13. Sometimes all we can do is trust that hardship is a path to peace.

Eric Wilson