What do we know about culture?
I invite you to reflect on the meaning of quotes and great sayings about culture.
Culture is just a thin apple peel over red-hot chaos. Nietzsche F.
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Culture is the measure of humanity in a person. Karl Marx
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Culture is perfection in being. Dina Dean
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The highest possible stage of moral culture is when we realize that we are able to control our thoughts. Charles Darwin
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Mass culture is an anesthetic, an analgesic, not a drug. Stanislav Lem
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Culture is a desire for euphony and light, but the main thing is for both euphony and light to prevail. Matthew Arnold
Culture is connected with a cult, it develops from a religious cult... Culture is connected with the cult of ancestors, with legends and traditions. It is full of sacred symbolism, it contains knowledge and similarities of another spiritual reality.. Every culture (even material culture) is a culture of the spirit, every culture has a spiritual basis - it is a product of the creative work of the spirit over the natural elements. N. A. Berdyaev.
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The heart, imagination and mind are the environment where what we call culture is born. Paustovsky K. G.
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In culture, the base is the top. Grigory Landau
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Civilization is dominion over the world; culture is the love of the world.
Anthony Kempinski
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Dying, culture turns into civilization. Oswald Spengler
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In its deepest essence, culture is nothing but a creative synthesis. Wilhelm Windelband
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For true culture there is no enemy more terrible than rationalism. Vladimir Frantsevich Ern
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In each of us the crisis of culture, whether we realize it or not, is a crisis of our own soul. Georg Simmel
Human culture arises and unfolds in the game, like a game. Johan Huizinga
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Talking about culture has always been the opposite of culture. Theodor Adorno
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If I believe in anything, it's only in culture. Culture, if you think about it, is not based on curiosity at all, but on the love of perfection; culture is the knowledge of perfection. People of culture are the true apostles of equality. Matthew Arnold
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Culture is an extension of the mind and spirit. Jawaharlal Nehru
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Culture is that rope that you can throw to a drowning man and with which you can strangle your neighbor. The development of culture is as much for the benefit of good as it is for the benefit of evil. Meekness grows, cruelty grows, altruism grows, but egoism also grows. It does not happen that with the increase of good, evil decreases; rather, as in the development of electricity: every appearance of positive electricity goes hand in hand with the appearance of negative electricity. Therefore, the struggle between good and evil does not fade away, but intensifies; it cannot end, and, apparently, it cannot but end. Florensky P. A.
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There is only one way to become a cultured person - reading.
A cultured person is a person oriented towards high moral values, striving to nourish the soul with the sublime and beautiful. A. Morua
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Culture unites all aspects of the human personality. You cannot be cultured in one area and remain ignorant in another. Respect for various aspects of culture, for its various forms, is the hallmark of a truly cultured person. D.S. Likhachev
The higher the culture, the higher the value of labor. Wilhelm Roscher
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The height of culture is determined by the attitude towards women. Gorky M.
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The advent of culture coincides with the birth of the intellect. Claude Levi-Strauss
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Poor conception of culture among those who believe that it is reduced to hardened formulas. The last scholar in the department of exact sciences knows much more about the laws of nature than Pascal knew. But is a schoolboy capable of thinking like him? Saint Exupery A.
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Culture is the essence of the organism. History of culture and their biography. Culture is born at the moment when a great soul awakens and emerges from the primitive spiritual state of ever-childish humanity. Oswald Spengler
"Mysticism is associated with spirituality rather than with soulfulness and involves penetration spirituality into soulfulness. Mysticism is the awakening of a spiritual person who sees reality better and sharper than a natural or spiritual person. Mysticism is the overcoming of creatureliness.
We know world geniuses, without whom Russian music would be deprived, or something. But, having absorbed this world culture, we managed to say our own word, which entered the world not as a beggar, did not enter from the side, but in order to saturate it with the colossal power of expression, intelligence, talent and that truth, that spirituality which the West is largely deprived of. It's this rational, orderly world of the West that Russia shakes all the time, as it were, and forces one to remember that mercantilism, materialism, is transient. But there are incorruptible values. These include the highest manifestations of the human spirit, expressed in art, in culture, in our literature.
Cinema, above all, plays with the human skin of things, the epidermis of reality, it elevates matter and shows us it in a deep spirituality, in its relationship with the spirit that gave birth to it.
Since the great meaning of our religion lies in the unity of the spiritual and the human, how strange it is to see some spiritual treatises completely devoid of philanthropy.
Printing is the most common way for individuals to reveal their spiritual being. It is guided not by respect for individuals, but only for the mind.
Supreme calm still remains the ideal of great art. Forms and transient forms of life are but stages towards this ideal, which the religion of Christ illuminates with its divine light.
Human love lives on uncontrolled and unruly dark desires; spiritual love lives in the pure light of service prescribed by truth (Life in Christian Fellowship, Ch. 1)
Philosophy, considered in itself, has no value, there can be nothing worthy in philosophy, except what is required of it for divine wisdom. Everything else is wrong and empty.
Politeness, tolerance, humanity - these basic virtues of any moral system are completely incompatible with religious prejudices.
But the criterion of truth is not in the mind, not in the intellect, but in the integral spirit. The heart and conscience remain the supreme organs for evaluating and for knowing the meaning of things.
Philosophy can only exist if philosophical intuition is recognized. And every significant and genuine philosopher has his original intuition. This intuition cannot be replaced by either the dogmas of religion or the truths of science.
In other words, in all spheres of modern life, as soon as - systematically, historically or philosophically - we get to the heart of the matter, we come across spiritual structures that go back to antiquity or Christianity.
Creativity is an activity in which the spiritual world of the individual is revealed, it is a kind of magnet that attracts a person to a person.
Nature is more aristocratic than man. Differences in rank and status in European societies, as well as caste differences in India, are insignificant in comparison with the differences in the mental and moral qualities of people, supposed by nature itself.
The reality of the spirit is not objective, not material, but a different reality, and an incommensurably greater reality, a more primary reality. ... The spirit is a different, higher quality of existence than the existence of soul and body.
The salvation of mankind lies in the heart of man, in man's ability to self-knowledge, in human meekness and in human responsibility.
The unity of people with people, based on the real difference between people, the concept of the human race, transferred from the sky of abstraction to the real earth - what is it, if not the concept societies!
There are two ways in contemporary art: negation and continuation of traditions. Creation is the path of continuation. It is important to realize that the continuation of tradition does not deprive the artist of freedom of expression.
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Bataysk
2014
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Libraries are the most important thing in culture. There may not be universities, institutes, other cultural institutions, but if there are libraries ... - culture will not perish in such a country.
D. S. Likhachev
Quotes, aphorisms, statements about culture [Text]: information manual / MBUK "TsBS"; CGB; Service Department; comp. Vertieva G. A.; resp. for the issue Parasotskaya E.V. - Bataysk, 2014. - 12 p.
To help organize cultural and mass work
Dear Colleagues!
2014 has begun, proclaimed the Year of Culture in Russia. We, like no one else, understand how important such a step is, designed to draw public attention to the development and preservation of Russian culture. Culture covers such significant aspects of life as language, history, education, science, religion, art, literature, music - everything that is called upon to preserve and ensure the spiritual development of the people.
We, cultural workers, should make the most of this opportunity to express ourselves and show our activities as an important component in the overall contribution to the development of Russian culture.
We offer you a selection of quotes, aphorisms, sayings about culture, which may be useful in the design of exhibitions, library materials, scripts, manuals, etc.)
If we think about Culture, this already means that we think about both Beauty and the Book as a beautiful creation.
N.K. Roerich
A common culture is what allows a person to feel wholeheartedly solidarity with others in time and space - both with people of his generation, and with past generations and with future generations.
Langevin
Culture is memory. Therefore, it is connected with history, always implies the continuity of the moral, intellectual, spiritual life of a person, society and mankind.
Yu. M. Lotman
Culture is connected with a cult, it develops from a religious cult... Culture is connected with the cult of ancestors, with legends and traditions. It is full of sacred symbolism, it contains knowledge and similarities of another spiritual reality.. Every culture (even material culture) is a culture of the spirit, every culture has a spiritual basis - it is a product of the creative work of the spirit over the natural elements.
N. A. Berdyaev.
There is only one way to become a cultured person - reading. A cultured person is a person oriented towards high moral values, striving to nourish the soul with the sublime and beautiful.
Cultural monuments are generators of spiritual energy invested in them by the people who created them, as well as by the people who have worshiped them for many centuries. Destroying cultural monuments, we destroy the most valuable thing - the spiritual energy of the people.
Fedor Abramov.
The modern culture of Russia is, first of all, our speech, our holidays, our schools and universities, our attitude to parents, to our family, to our Fatherland, to other peoples and countries. Academician D.S. Likhachev wrote: “If you love your mother, you will understand others who love their parents, and this trait will not only be familiar to you, but also pleasant. If you love your people, you will understand other peoples who love their nature, their art, their past.”
Literature has risen above Russia like a huge protective dome - it has become a shield of its unity, a moral shield.
D. S. Likhachev
Someday, when Russian readers become more interested in their past, the greatness of the literary feat of Russian literature will become completely clear to them, and ignorant scolding of Russia will be replaced by an informed respect for its moral and aesthetic values.
D. S. Likhachev
Human culture as a whole not only has memory, but it is memory par excellence. The culture of mankind is the active memory of mankind, actively introduced into modernity.
D. S. Likhachev
Culture unites all aspects of the human personality. You cannot be cultured in one area and remain ignorant in another. Respect for different aspects of culture, for its different forms - this is the trait of a truly cultured person.
D.S. Likhachev
Memory is the basis of conscience and morality, memory is the basis of culture, "accumulated" culture, memory is one of the foundations of poetry - an aesthetic understanding of cultural values. Preserving memory, preserving memory is our moral duty to ourselves and to our descendants. Memory is our wealth.
D.S. Likhachev
“Culture represents the main meaning and main value of the existence of both individual peoples and small ethnic groups, and states. Outside of culture, their independent existence loses its meaning. D. S. Likhachev "Declaration of the Rights of Culture".
D. S. Likhachev
“Culture is what largely justifies before God the existence of a people and a nation.
Much is said today about the unity of various "spaces" and "fields". Dozens of newspaper and magazine articles, television and radio programs discuss issues related to the unity of economic, political, informational and other spaces. I am primarily interested in the problem of cultural space. By space I understand in this case not just a certain geographical territory, but, first of all, the space of the environment, which has not only extension, but also depth.
D. S. Likhachev
“We still do not have a concept of culture and cultural development in our country. Most people (including "statesmen") understand culture as a very limited range of phenomena: theatre, museums, variety art, music, literature - sometimes not even including science, technology, education in the concept of culture ... So it often turns out so that the phenomena that we refer to as "culture" are considered in isolation from each other: the theater has its own problems, writers' organizations have their own, philharmonics and museums have their own, etc.
D. S. Likhachev
“Meanwhile, culture is a huge holistic phenomenon that makes people inhabiting a certain space, from just a population, into a people, a nation. The concept of culture should and always has included religion, science, education, moral and moral standards of behavior of people and the state.
D. S. Likhachev
“I think of the 21st century as a century of humanitarian culture, a culture that is kind and educative, laying down the freedom to choose a profession and use creative forces. Education subordinated to the tasks of upbringing, the diversity of secondary and higher schools, the revival of self-esteem, which does not allow talents to go into crime, the revival of a person's reputation as something higher, which everyone should cherish, the revival of conscience and the concept of honor - these are, in general terms, what we need in the 21st century. Not only Russians, of course, but especially Russians, because that is what we have largely lost in our ill-fated 20th century.”
D. S. Likhachev
The higher the culture, the higher the value of labor.
Wilhelm Roscher
The height of culture is determined by the attitude towards women.
Gorky M.
The advent of culture coincides with the birth of the intellect.
Claude Levi-Strauss
Culture is the measure of humanity in a person.
Karl Marx
Culture is perfection in being.
Culture is a great teacher of how one should live.
Dina Dean
The highest possible stage of moral culture is when we realize that we are able to control our thoughts.
Charles Darwin
Any rules about what should and what should not be read are simply ridiculous. Modern culture is more than half based on what not to read.
Oscar Wilde
Culture and appearance are completely different things.
Ralph Emerson
In order to enjoy many things, a person must be ... a highly cultured person ...
Karl Marx
Culture cannot be inherited, it must be won.
André Malraux
Mass culture is an anesthetic, an analgesic, not a drug.
Stanislav Lem
When a culture feels that its end is coming, it sends for a priest.
Karl Kraus
Culture, says one Japanese educator, is what remains when everything else is forgotten.
Edouard Herriot
Criticism requires much more culture than creativity.
Oscar Wilde
Culture is a desire for euphony and light, but the main thing is for both euphony and light to prevail.
Matthew Arnold
Culture is just a thin apple peel over red-hot chaos.
The heart, imagination and mind are the environment where what we call culture is born.
Paustovsky K. G.
One who has not acquired cultural skills is rude.
Culture is about everything that we do and that apes don't do.
Lord Raglan
In culture, the base is the top.
Grigory Landau
The history of world culture is the history of the suffering of those people who created it.
Erich Maria Remarque
One cannot be a cultured person without knowing the basic results of all sciences. The culture is one. Synthetic. There is no separate culture for engineer and medic. All together sciences form culture, its ideology - outlook.
G. S. Altshuller, I. M. Vertkin
If a person is stuffed with fragments of a culture that he does not understand, then he becomes a wonderful fanatic and a weapon in the wrong hands.
Alexey Pekhov
In a war between civilizations, culture bears the losses. Samuel Huntington.
Culture is to know the best that has been said and invented in the world.
Matthew Arnold
If a movie is successful, it's a business. If a movie doesn't do well, it's art.
Carlo Ponti
Culture for many is the first need that does not need to be satisfied.
Stanislav Jerzy Lec
Culture begins with taboos.
Yuri Lotman
Civilization is power over the world; culture is love for the world.
Anthony Kempinski
Dying, culture turns into civilization.
Oswald Spengler
I don't want to wall my house or board up my windows. I want the spirit of the culture of different countries to blow as freely as possible everywhere: I don’t just need it to knock me off my feet.
If I believe in anything, it's only in culture. Culture, if you think about it, is not based on curiosity at all, but on the love of perfection; culture is the knowledge of perfection. People of culture are the true apostles of equality.
Arnold M.
Culture is that rope that you can throw to a drowning man and with which you can strangle your neighbor. The development of culture is as much for the benefit of good as it is for the benefit of evil. Meekness is growing - cruelty is also growing, altruism is growing, but egoism is also growing. It does not happen that with the increase of good, evil decreases; rather, as in the development of electricity: every appearance of positive electricity goes hand in hand with the appearance of negative electricity. Therefore, the struggle between good and evil does not fade away, but intensifies; it cannot end, and, apparently, it cannot but end.
Florensky P. A.
Poor conception of culture among those who believe that it is reduced to hardened formulas. The last scholar in the department of exact sciences knows much more about the laws of nature than Pascal knew. But is a schoolboy capable of thinking like him?
Saint Exupery A.
And let the work up to a seventh sweat,
After all, holidays are not made in silence.
Culture is not a job at all
Culture is a state of mind.
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Quotes about morality and morality
Albert Einstein said that "morality is the basis of all human values". What are the values in the modern world, I think that is clear to everyone. But not only have they changed. Thinking, behavior and our way of life is also an example of this. We have begun to forget about morality and morality, and this is very disturbing. What will the next generation be like, what can they learn? There are many questions, and the answer is becoming increasingly difficult to find.
- Nature has given man a weapon in his hands - intellectual moral force, but he can use this weapon in the opposite direction, therefore a person without moral principles turns out to be the most impious and wild creature, base in his sexual and taste instincts. Aristotle
- Morality is the science of the relations that exist between people, and of the duties arising from these relations. P. Holbach
- Who moves forward in knowledge, but lags behind in morality, he goes back more than forward. Aristotle
- Morality must lie in character. I.Kant
- What is morality? What should morality be? In a firm, deep conviction, in a fiery, unshakable faith in the dignity of man, in his high purpose. This conviction, this faith is the source of all human virtues, all actions. V.G. Belinsky
- There is no other morality, except that which is based on the principles of reason and follows from the natural inclination of man to goodness. P. Bayle
- Morals deteriorate more easily than they are corrected. L.Vauvenarg
- People need human morality based on human nature, on experience, on reason. V. Helvetius
- The best people are known by the highest moral development and the highest moral influence. F.M.Dostoevsky
- Morality is not a list of actions and not a collection of rules that can be used like pharmaceutical or culinary recipes. D. Dewey
- Morality serves to raise human society higher. V.I.Lenin
- Morality is not a teaching about how we should consider ourselves happy, but about how we should become worthy of happiness. I.Kant
- Moral fortitude in success is even more important than in adversity. F. La Rochefoucauld
- Corruption of morals is disastrous for republics and beneficial for absolute monarchies and despotic power. D.Leopardi
- Morality is, undoubtedly, the most important thing in life; she is perhaps the very will to live. T.Mann
- All our dignity is that we are able to think. Let us try to think correctly: this is the basis of morality. B. Pascal
- The range of moral duties is much wider than what the laws prescribe. Seneca the Younger
- The most important capital of the nation is the moral qualities of the people N.G. Chernyshevsky
And I end this post again with the words of Albert Einstein - "Ultimately, the basis of all human values is morality." 
Two things always fill the soul with new and stronger wonder and reverence, the more often and longer we think about them - this is the starry sky above me and the moral law in me.
Immanuel Kant
Morality is the mind of the heart.
Heinrich Heine
Ethics is the aesthetics of the soul.
Pierre Reverdy
Ethics is an attempt to give universal validity to some of our desires.
Bertrand Russell
Morality does not teach how to become happy, but how to become worthy of happiness.
Immanuel Kant
Ethics is the philosophy of good will, and not just good action.
Immanuel Kant
Ethics is either active, creative or passive, repentant, ethics of intolerance towards oneself and others, which can only delve into the so-called sins; and sometimes shameful to be right.
Karol Izhikovsky
A person must be moral freely, which means that he must also be given some freedom to be immoral.
Vladimir Solovyov
No one can be completely free until everyone is free. No one can be perfectly moral until everyone is still moral. No one can be perfectly happy until everyone is still happy.
Herbert Spencer
Act according to such a maxim, which at the same time may itself become a universal law.
Immanuel Kant
Preaching morality is easy, justifying it is difficult.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Morality is not a list of actions and not a collection of rules that can be used like pharmaceutical or culinary recipes.
John Dewey
True ethics begins where the use of words ceases.
Albert Schweitzer
Even death can be consent and therefore a moral act. The animal dies, the person must hand over his soul to its Creator.
Henri Amiel
Christian morality is tailored for growth. Unfortunately, people have stopped growing.
Felix Hwalibug
Do not forget that the Lord's Prayer begins with a request for daily bread. It is difficult to praise the Lord and love your neighbor on an empty stomach.
Woodrow Wilson
The morality of peoples depends on respect for women.
Wilhelm Humboldt
Morality must be a bitter fruit if we give it to wives and sisters.
Alexander Sventohovsky
Virtue is its own reward.
Ovid
The best punishment for virtue is virtue itself.
Aneurin Bevin
An ascetic makes need out of virtue.
Friedrich Nietzsche
To be a patriot, one must hate all nations except one's own; to be a religious man - all sects except one's own; to be a moral person - all falsehood except his own.
Lionel Strachey
Morality has always been the last refuge of people who are indifferent to art.
Oscar Wilde
Immorality is the morality of those who have a better time than we do.
Henry Louis Mencken
True morality neglects morality.
B. Pascal
Morality grows stronger when the flesh grows decrepit.
Molière
Higher morality requires some freedom for immorality as well.
V. Solovyov
Sinlessness in its purest form is a husk,
I am single from the meaning of life,
After all, morality, which did not know sin, -
Just simple bad luck.
I. Huberman
People of higher morality do not consider themselves moral, therefore they have higher morality.
Lao Tzu
All publications and even books about morality, about how to behave in society, do not bring any benefit. Those who read them, that is, those who are educated, do not need them, moral freaks do not read them.
V. Zubkov
A sense of morality helps us understand the essence of morality and how to evade it.
Mark Twain
Moral people are the most vengeful people.
L. Shestov
With the help of a moral sense, a person distinguishes good from bad, and then decides how to act. What are the results of the choice? Nine times out of ten he chooses to do bad things.
Mark Twain
Own moral uncleanliness is a sign of contempt for oneself.
Apuleius
Only with strong, ideal aspirations can people fall morally low.
L. Tolstoy
For chaste people
Through mysterious currents
Sour in vain love juice
Goes to kefir moralizing.
I. Huberman
Text Sayings, aphorisms and quotes of great and famous people":
The death of the soul is ungodliness and lawless life.
John Chrysostom
Spirituality
Man is the battlefield between God and the devil.
Fyodor M. Dostoevsky
Spirituality, Devil and Satan, Life, Man
Loneliness is an ally of sadness, it is also a companion of spiritual elevation.
Gibran Khalil D.
Spirituality, Wise Quotes, Loneliness, Sadness
Thales
Inner Peace, Spirituality, Beauty, Motivational Quotes, Habits
Omar Khayyam
Wealth, Spirituality, Motivational quotes, Values
There is only one problem - the only one in the world - to return spiritual content to people, spiritual cares ...
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Spirituality, Life Quotes, Caring
The pattern of historical phenomena is inversely proportional to their spirituality.
Vasily O. Klyuchevsky
Spirituality
Oh, this is humanity! His spiritual development does not keep pace with his technical successes, far behind them.
Thomas Mann
Sad Quotes, Spirituality, Humanity
Love that wants to be only spiritual becomes a shadow; if it is devoid of a spiritual beginning, then it becomes meanness.
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Spirituality, Love, Meanness
Filling life with the temptation of bright days,
Filling the soul with the flame of passions,
The god of renunciation demands: here is the cup -
It is full: bend down - and do not spill!
Omar Khayyam
God, Spirituality, Life, Ironic Quotes, Temptation
... I come to the unconditional conclusion that right now we must give the most decisive and merciless battle to the Black Hundred clergy and crush their resistance with such cruelty that they will not forget this for several decades ... The more representatives of the reactionary clergy and the reactionary bourgeoisie we succeed in on this occasion to shoot, the better.
Vladimir I. Lenin
Spirituality, Cruelty, Religion
Desires are vicious those that bring harm in themselves - to others. Desires are also vicious - when they prevent a person from becoming better, when from the good of the Whole - they are taken back!
It is useful for us to be able to refrain from bad or untimely desires. That strengthens the will and gives the soul freedom from enslavement by desires. It is ridiculous and humiliating for a person to be a prisoner of the desire of anyone - whether it is a desire to eat, or sleep, or take out an insult on another!
Listen man! Your desires - be you master! Do not be a slave to the despicable base passions!
Pythagoras of Samos
Harm, Spirituality, Wisdom
On this page you will find quotes about spirituality, you will definitely need this information for general development.
Collective spirituality - inevitably spiritual violence, submission. Thus, monastic brotherhoods define their spirituality very precisely - as obedience, patriotic - as devotion. Alexander Kruglov
The spiritual is that which is beyond the material. And petty-bourgeois spirituality is material in excess of the necessary. Alexander Kruglov
Possession is soulless spirituality. Alexander Kruglov
Spirituality gives filth a shade of harmonious completeness. Gennady Malkin
Aging beauty is depressing if it is not followed by spirituality and dignity. Wilhelm Schwöbel
Well, what kind of curse hangs over the people: if spirituality, then to the detriment of common sense, if freedom, then with pogrom and arson, if faith, then with the anger of a castrato ulcer, if a festival, then with a hangover for a week. Sergey Lukyanenko
Spirituality is the opposite of religion, since it is inherent in every person, while religion is only a ready thought, intended for those who are not able to find their own path of development.
To the question: “What have all your spiritual quests and practices taught you?”, the writer Aldous Huxley replied: “I will limit myself to just four words: try to be a little kinder.”
In this dark world, consider only spiritual wealth to be true, for it will never depreciate.
Love is primarily a spiritual feeling. Because of this, she does not need to be platonic, faded and incorporeal at all. Love is intoxication. But not the intoxication of the flesh, but the intoxication of souls.
Chess leads to spirituality, as it makes us understand that there is a struggle between two forces - white and black, which symbolize good and evil, positive and negative. They make it clear
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that each of us has our own role, but different abilities: a pawn, a queen or a queen, but depending on our location, all of us, even simple pawns, can checkmate.
It is not the appearance that needs to be decorated, but to be beautiful in spiritual undertakings.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, but spiritual beings having a human experience.
Spiritual deeds are more terrible for tyrants than bodily ones. A thief will have mercy rather than a righteous man with a strong spirit.
Spiritual riches, they can be felt, but it is very difficult to describe in words.
Contact with the sea turns my heart to spirituality. What once seemed important is losing its meaning. Paying bills, a new car, a lifetime home loan - now I understand how many precious years of life the desire to possess all these material goods has taken from me. All I need to feel alive is a wave and a sunset, so why not go my own way in life?
Only such a fool as a man could think that spirituality elevates him above the animals. No animal in nature is spiritual, and do you know why? Because animals don't need crutches.
You need to steal less! ... Spirituality is important. When it is a shame to steal, to deceive. It is not in vain that the great ones, first of all, cared about morality - the basis of culture and science. And if moral criteria are lost - what is happening today - this leads to huge losses and even a threat to society.
I'm afraid women are not allowed to attend such events, because most of the men are too stupid. They simply do not understand that women are capable of comprehending spiritual knowledge no less than they are.
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She laughed. May the Lord grant them wisdom!
Sincere faith, if there is a lot of it and it lasts for so many centuries, tends not only to accumulate spiritual energy, but also to acquire materiality.
If you were doing spiritual practice, you would know that there is no such thing as "attention" at all. Like everything else in the human mind, it's just a witty play on words. We call the word “attention” the fact that a certain process is taking place in consciousness. Say, a certain object exists for a long time as a central segment of the field of perception. The medium first removes this segment from the minds of others. And then he does whatever he wants with it.
Faith is something abstract for unbelievers, for ordinary people. But the one who works in the dimension of faith understands and realizes that it is real. Everyone has their own dimension of life. For example, the civilization of human society is beyond the understanding of an insect or a worm... Thanks to faith, we can live in a higher dimension and this is something concrete, although not easily understood.
Those who actually interact with this dimension, they find many confirmations of the reality of this. Yes, we receive news, news, information. Confirmations are possible. If representatives of the ordinary or ignorant masses do not find confirmation of a higher reality, this does not mean at all that it does not exist.
369 On the Nature of Goloka
Whatever satisfies Krishna is lila. And adorable, and pure, and absolutely perfect. We must view things in this light. Undesirable phenomena are also harmonized. Something so specific: the nature and position of the autocracy is so perfect. Nothing evil can enter, enter when it comes to communication with Him. Good or bad exists when it comes to the clash of different sides. But there are no different sides. There is only one side.
329 If you find yourself in the spirit world
There is a dimension where you don't have to take care of yourself. There is no need to try to find something to feel comfortable. Everything automatically and perfectly serves your true good. You do not need to calculate what is good and what is bad for you. The atmosphere will do it for you; will do whatever is necessary for you, and it will be something perfect.
301 Spiritual world - the land of Beauty
Land of beauty. “Where every word is a song, every step is a dance and the flute is the dearest companion…” (“Sri Brahma-samhita”, 5.56) Every word in the spiritual world is a song, not a material sound. He comes from another abode, where everything captivates the heart with beauty and charm. It is a world where good manners are most sweet and harmonious, where every word is a song (kath± ganam), every movement resembles a dance with its grace (nat±yaṁ gamanam api). This is how the world is described. Everything in it is filled with the most refined beauty. This is the land of beauty. Everything bears the imprint of the beauty of the divine, unearthly. The root cause of everything enchants, attracts the heart and soul, powerfully attracts to Himself.
300 Faith - a device for seeing the spiritual world
Without electromagnetic waves, we will not be able to communicate with the Moon and other planets. Our hands, eyes and other organs of perception cannot communicate with them. Faith, like the subtle force of electricity, connects us to a distant reality. Other methods are useless here.
Faith is a real power, it is not a figment of the imagination or an abstract mind game. The mind is the offspring of matter, the lower being, and cannot beget faith. She is of a different, non-material nature. The source of faith is the highest reality, the reality of the soul.
Without the help of special instruments, we are not even able to see what is happening in our own body. Faith, sraddha, is such an instrument through which the soul can turn to the higher world and see it. Our material abilities and technical devices are powerless here.
289 Our soul is a child of the spiritual world
We have come here, intoxicated by the spirit of enslavement, longing for the miserable enjoyment of the objects of the world of exploitation. We came to colonize the material world, but we failed. The world of materialistic aspirations has swallowed and enslaved us, chaining us into subtle and gross bodies. All these shells must be removed in order for our inner personality, our true self, to emerge. Beneath the gross false ego is the beautiful ego, the soul. And she is a child of that higher abode.
283 Spiritual world - the world of happiness
The land of Vrindavan is the happiest land that knows no boundaries. It includes everything. The material world is only an insignificant part of the boundless world, the boundless ocean of beauty. This is not suggestion or sentimentality. This is as real as our pursuit of happiness is real.
Materialists believe that money and women will bring them true happiness, but they are only disappointed. Worldly happiness is illusory. One way or another, these people deceive themselves all their lives.
277 The Spirit World Is Not a Place for Tourism
The spiritual world is a land of sacrifice, self-surrender. How can we enter the land of sacrifice and self-surrender without the spirit of sacrifice and self-surrender? We cannot go there as tourists just because we have read the scriptures or heard some attractive descriptions of that World from the devotees. It is impossible for us to say, “Oh! And I would like to see what is there and how.” Even in this world, we know how people look at tourists. They usually say: “Oh, yes, these are some idiots, tourists. They have nothing to do, so they came here to see the sights. And what is really happening in our homeland - they have no idea.” What about the spiritual world?
219 Nature of the spirit world
"Golden Cup" is a special kind of cream. You can see how two fingers of sour cream is on top of this cream. And Srila Guru Maharaj says, “This world that we are so attached to is our permanent postal address, this world is like this cream. The world of our experience is just a surface shell. But it is followed by vast areas of being - and this is the world of consciousness. But there is an even wider area of being - Sat, Chit and Anandam. And all-encompassing, vast and highly concentrated, condensed - such is the nature of the dimension of being anandam - bliss.
195 Access to the Spirit World
Faith is not something abstract and non-existent. Faith is much more real and concrete than the so-called real, concrete objects of this world. Just as there are different worlds of sensory perception: there is a world of sight, which is available to us through the eyes, there is a world of hearing, which is available to us through the ears, a world of smell, touch, and so on and so forth - there is a spiritual world, what is called Kingdom of God or the world of God, Spiritual Reality. And this world can be accessible to us, we can perceive the realities of this world through such a principle as faith.
125 Inhabitants of the Higher World
Those who live in that dimension, in that ideal world, they have... These are people with such a wonderful temperament, they do not complain about anyone, they do not complain about anyone. They see, they view the environment in the most ideal light. And they are alert, careful not to create any disturbance. It is a pure realm, a pure realm. And I should not create, bring darkness. They are very alert, very careful in this regard. Absolute purity. This kind of temperament allows you to enter that dimension, that realm, that realm where everything is good.
124 Reach the Highest Dimension
If we want to reach the higher dimension, then we must change ourselves, take the right attitude, we must cultivate the following thought, that "all this is good, all this is blissful." And where am I? The place where I am now? My present position is very low. This kind of attitude will bring us success very quickly. No complaints about anyone, no complaints about your past life. With a pure and open heart, we will strive for this ideal. And then very soon we will reach this ideal.
123 No risk no gain
The expression "No risk, no gain" refers to this dimension of life - the dimension where we are now. The Bhagavad Gita advises us: “Do not strive, do not be attached to either gain or loss, because in this dimension of being everything is false, both gain and loss and loss. And then there will be your inner awakening in the true place where there is risk, there is gain and there is loss, gain and loss. Loss is an insult, service is gain, gain." In this dimension of being, gains and losses are false, but in the Higher dimension of being, both loss and gain are present, true and real. And that is sadhana.
120 This world is not reliable
This world is not reliable, we are in a very dangerous position here. We can't, we have no ground under our feet here. I want to have real, real ground under my feet, otherwise I can't... I can't calm my mind. Where can I stand, where is the ground under my feet? She always leaves from under my feet, in this world. Drop by drop, drop by drop. If a drop, if water drips constantly, then it, this water corrodes the stone, makes a hole in the stone. This consciousness accumulated, merit accumulated, sukriti, good fortune. And in the end, we see, in the end, as a result of this development, that in this world we have nowhere to stand, nothing to stand on. I am lost in this world, I have no solid ground under my feet. And there is a sincere desire, a desire for the land on which I can stand.
true happiness
Everyone's inner need is for rasa: sukham, anandam - happiness, ecstasy. And a person can rob and enjoy it, another enjoys what he donates, gives. Pleasure and there, and there, happiness. But there is a qualitative difference. Through devotion, through sacrifice, we survive, we get the maximum of anadam. By sacrificing ourselves, we acquire a higher quality rasa - the fullness of love. Through sacrifice we can find an atmosphere, a land of love.
