Vissarion Belinsky

“In the scales of justice, a man's actions are weighed more than his words.”

“To deprive a man of the right to error is to deprive him of the right to truth.”

“Society is a man's highest reality.”

“Life is a struggle; to live is to fight.”

“Human personality is the highest and most sacred thing.”

“Humor is the wit of the heart.”

“Without a goal, there is no activity, without interests, there is no goal, and without activity, there is no life.”

“Love is often a mistake. It is almost always so with those who are not worthy of love.”

“Art is the immediate contemplation of the truth.”

“To live means to feel, to think, to suffer.”

“In art, the idea must be embodied in a beautiful form; without this, the best idea will mean nothing.”

“A nation is a soul, a spiritual principle.”