Aphorisms and quotations

This work is a collection of sayings on various spiritual and moral topics, taken from the works of the Optina elders and arranged in alphabetical order.

In the Taoist system of thought, there were “koans” - statements, to comprehend and understand which was the task of the student, and the more logical the me...

The book “This is Useful and Interesting to Know” is a kind of mini-encyclopedia that will help the reader while away his leisure time with benefit and inter...

In this book, parables are the only dish. They are like concentrated food - you can’t eat too much: after reading one parable, the reader can get the impress...

A libertine catches me in the square, and a preacher catches me in the passage. Through television, newspapers and radio they break into my house. They are e...

The work in aphorisms, in content and style, continues the direction of the philosophy of life begun by Friedrich Nietzsche, exploring a variety of issues an...

In the book you will find aphorisms, quotes, statements, parables of great thinkers from antiquity to the present day: Aristotle, Plato, Epicurus, Avicenna, ...

The book contains about 3,750 famous quotes and catchwords, primarily those that are actively used in our time.

The book by the famous Russian folklorist and ethnographer, professor at Moscow University, recognized expert on Moscow antiquities Ivan Mikhailovich Snegire...

It is no coincidence that this collection of aphorisms is called the “Book of the Leader”: it contains hundreds of sayings of great people who at different t...

The book contains more than 1,300 phrases of the great wit Oscar Wilde - about life and death, about men and women, about clothes and fashion, about art, rel...

“Excerpts, sayings, etc. are like burning glasses: they collect the rays of intelligence and knowledge... and with force and vividness they concentrate these...