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  • Philosopher
  • 1930 - 1996
  • 15 quotes

Simon Soloveychik, a philosopher (1930 - 1996), is quoted 15 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Men, People, Teacher and Dignity.

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The word "truth" applies to a man's dignity.

Faith creates the foundation for conviction.

The demeaning of dignity is almost the only reason for a fight.

The feeling of love - is a fervent desire of goodness to a man.

A son is not a judge of his father, but the conscience of the father is in his son.

Happiness does not depend on the size or content of a goal, but on the strength of the desire to have it.

To see a man as beautiful – means to make him really beautiful. There is no cunning, no deceit; this happens every time, everyone knows that.

A vicious teacher is just a vicious teacher, as a vicious neighbor may happen to be. But a vicious mother - means that the whole world is vicious.

A child gets sick with a chronic disease of unhappiness not from unhappy circumstances but from unhappy people around him. Unhappy people cannot raise happy children; it's impossible.

Justice of the world is in its creativity, in solving problems, in our activity and struggle. While I am alive there is the possibility to act, to strive for happiness, this is justice.

Let's remember our goal. It is not to reeducate the teacher; it is not to express fair anger, it is not "to show everyone that..." No! We need that the sense of dignity remains in our son or daughter here is our goal!

Imagine a man who doesn't believe in anything, hope for anything, doesn't love anyone. This is a description of a dead or paralyzed soul. This happens from great grief, or from an unhappy upbringing when parents make from their children's souls paralytics.

Integrity has a high psychological and philosophical value, for many people it is a highest value, it associate with health of soul. Dualism, contradiction, torments of hesitation - is something of illness, integrity is health, people strive for it instinctively.

A free man - is a man who is free internally. As all other people, externally he or she depends on society. Internally he or she is independent. A society can become liberated externally - from oppression, but it can become free only when the majority of people are free internally.

Fears to look bad in front of other people, to say something wrong, to be laughed at - all those fears deprive us of half of our abilities. This is one of the main school problems. That teacher understands it, who can teach students to study without fear of the teacher, without fear of classmates, and, the most important, without fear of a subject.

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