Collection of thoughts, sayings, aphorisms, maxims, paradoxes, epigrams. Before you is a unique book. Despite the fact that it was first published three quarters of a century ago, it was not reprinted until recently. The work of N. Ya. Khoromin was not easy to obtain even in the largest book depositories. For example, in the famous Russian State Library (formerly "Leninka") only a photocopy is presented, which is in a special collection. But the uniqueness of the "Encyclopedia of Thought" is not only this. Among the “books of wisdom” this publication is highly valued because both in form and content it probably has no equal among literature of this kind. This is all the more important to note that over the past hundred years many similar collections have been published (in my personal collection there are over three hundred). Among them are “Encyclopedia of the Mind” by N. Makarov (1878), “Sayings of the Ancient Greek Thinkers” (1887), “Opinions of Russians about themselves” (1905), “Symphony of the Mind” by V. Vorontsov (1974), “Aphorisms” by S. . Ignatiev (1975), “Nothing is stronger than the word” by J. Berlin and P. Petrov (1985), books of sayings by Goethe, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Kant, philosophers of Ancient China and Ancient India; the wisdom of the Russian classics is widely reflected...How is the “Encyclopedia of Thought” significantly different from them? First of all, by the selection of statements based on truly enduring ideas common to humanity. The author makes no concessions to the current political situation. Everything here is forever.