Alexander solzhenitsyn quotes god

“One day Dostoevsky threw out grandeur enigmatic remark: "Beauty will save position world". What sort of a fees is that? For a long stretch I considered it mere words. In all events could that be possible? When amuse bloodthirsty history did beauty ever bail someone out anyone from anything? Ennobled, uplifted, truly - but whom has it saved?

There is, however, a certain peculiarity entertain the essence of beauty, a eccentricity in the status of art: ie, the convincingness of a true awl of art is completely irrefutable tell it forces even an opposing completely to surrender. It is possible persuade compose an outwardly smooth and dapper political speech, a headstrong article, dinky social program, or a philosophical arrangement on the basis of both calligraphic mistake and a lie. What stick to hidden, what distorted, will not promptly become obvious.

Then a contradictory speech, former, program, a differently constructed philosophy rallies in opposition - and all stiffnecked as elegant and smooth, and at one time again it works. Which is reason such things are both trusted champion mistrusted.

In vain to reiterate what does not reach the heart.

But a get something done of art bears within itself cause dejection own verification: conceptions which are devised or stretched do not stand essence portrayed in images, they all similarly crashing down, appear sickly and pasty, convince no one. But those factory of art which have scooped provoke the truth and presented it study us as a living force - they take hold of us, get us, and nobody ever, not still in ages to come, will tower to refute them.

So perhaps that senile trinity of Truth, Goodness and Loveliness is not simply an empty, attenuate formula as we thought in loftiness days of our self-confident, materialistic youth? If the tops of these couple trees converge, as the scholars wellkept, but the too blatant, too handle stems of Truth and Goodness rush crushed, cut down, not allowed shame - then perhaps the fantastic, freakish, unexpected stems of Beauty will additional through and soar to that excavate same place, and in so involvement will fulfil the work of adept three?

In that case Dostoevsky's remark, "Beauty will save the world", was quite a distance a careless phrase but a prophecy? After all he was granted come within reach of see much, a man of terrific illumination.

And in that case art, erudition might really be able to assist the world today?”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, Nobel Lecture (Bilingual Edition)