The great wisdom of science fiction writer Ivan Efremov in quotes ahead of the century

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

I would like to share the selected quotes of the famous writer and scientist I. Efremov, which are filled with a deep philosophy of life and open a new horizon of understanding. I learned about Ivan Efremov from the book by A. Novykh “Sensei”. To be honest, I was never fond of science fiction, but Efremov's works made a strong impression on me. I strongly advise you to familiarize yourself with at least one of his works as complementary books by A. Novykh.

- In the dark ages, a legend was born on earth about the great battle between God and Satan, good and evil, heaven and hell. White angels fought on the side of God, Black on the side of Satan. The whole world was split in two until Satan with his black army was defeated and cast into hell. But there were angels not white and not black, but gray, who remained on their own, not obeying anyone and not fighting on anyone's side. They were rejected by heaven and not accepted by hell, and from that time they remained forever between heaven and hell, that is, on earth …

- Happiness is not sought, like gold or treasure. It is created by themselves, those who have enough strength, knowledge and love.

- And the higher, purer, nobler a person, the greater a measure of suffering will be released to him by the "generous" nature and social being.

- It is better to be mistaken a hundred times, believing in a noble fairy tale, than to reject everything, trying to be smarter than your heart!

- People are freed more and more from endless and monotonous work and at the same time have not thought of how to fill their leisure. The psychological failure of modern civilization is aimless, empty idleness. And it must be filled with the upbringing of children and self-education. The big problem of life is to keep a person in an alert state, collected physically and spiritually. To do this, he needs to have a goal, big, good.

- When a person lost faith in himself and began to rely on the tools he invented, increasingly moving away from nature and weakening his inner strength. A woman lived differently and preserved herself more, became stronger than a man in her soul, in love and knowledge of her essence …

And men, losing their poetic power, declare war on the feminine principle, and at the same time they lose spiritual communication with the world and the gods. Paying to the deity, they consider their merits and sins as money, and instead of cleansing they receive a fatal feeling of guilt and powerlessness …

The single essence of man is torn in two. Reason more and more prevails, more characteristic of men, instead of feelings, heart and soul, characteristic of women …

After the accession of the male gods, the male spirit replaced the order and peace inherent in female dominion. Warrior heroes have replaced the magnificent mistresses of love and death …

- Now it is generally accepted to blame each other, look for the guilty, threaten punishment. We condemn all the time. And in my opinion, it is much more interesting to try to understand, rather than condemn … To understand that every person has weaknesses in harmony with his strengths.

- It cannot be otherwise, if the one to whom the Power, Gold, Will to change the destinies of states and people is given, does not understand that each of these parts of power has its reverse side, which fate will inevitably turn to a person if precautions are not taken. Gold has humiliation, envy, the struggle for wealth in the name of wealth; the Force has cruelty, violence, murder; Will has persistence in the use of Strength and Gold, blindness.

- What is the protection from these evil forces?

- Love, my daughter. If all three powerful levers are applied with love and in the name of love for people.

-… the most terrible poison even for a very wise and strong person is the constant praise of him and his deeds.

“Remember, my son, that thoughts, good and evil, vile and pure, have their own life and purpose. Once born, they merge into the general stream of actions that determine Karma - your own Karma, other people, even the entire nation. Therefore, hold them tightly, do not let unworthy thoughts bloom.

- … beauty is the correct line in the unity and struggle of opposites, the very middle between the two sides of every phenomenon, every thing that the ancient Greeks saw and called Ariston the best, considering the synonym for this word measure, more precisely - the sense of proportion. I imagine this measure as something extremely thin - a razor blade …

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