Sage. “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion”: the incredible truth Who are the Wise Men
IN Ancient Greece the founders ancient philosophy are considered the "7 wise men". Why in quotes? Because in reality there were more sages. There are several lists where they appear different names. But the quantity is the same everywhere.
The first list that has come down to us belongs to Plato and dates back to the 4th century. BC. According to Plato in list of "Seven Wise Men" are: Thales of Miletus, Biant of Priene, Solon of Athens, Pittacus of Mytilene, Chilon of Sparta, Mison of Cheney, Cleobulus of Lindia.
A later version of the list belongs to Diogenes Laertius (Laertius). No, this is not the Diogenes who lived in a barrel. Diogenes Laertius - late antique historian of philosophy. So on his list, instead of the little-known Mison, there is the name of the tyrant ruler Periander of Corinth. It is believed that Plato specifically removed Periander because of his hatred of despots and tyrants. There are other lists as well. All of them invariably contain 4 names: Thales, Biant, Solon and Pittacus. Over time names of sages overgrown with legends. This is how the ancient Greek philosopher Plutarch, in his work “The Feast of the Seven Wise Men,” described their non-existent meeting in Corinth.
Wisdom of the 7 Sages does not relate to mythology or science. This is rather purely worldly wisdom, expressed in concise wise statements.
Let's take a closer look at the sages and their great sayings.
Thales of Miletus (VII-VI centuries BC)
It is with the name of Thales of Miletus that any list of “7 wise men” begins. He is called the “Father of Philosophy” and is considered the first ancient scientist. In 585 BC. predicted a solar eclipse, after which he became famous. According to legend, Thales determined the height of the pyramids by their shadow, which incredibly surprised the Egyptian pharaoh. And having studied Egyptian geometry and their 365-day calendar, he introduced these innovations in Ancient Greece. There is also a geometric theorem named after Thales. According to the teachings of Thales, everything arose and arises from water, and then turns back into water. Ultimately, everything is water.
Biant of Priene (VII-VI centuries BC)
Biant of Priene is a public figure and ancient Greek sage. His biography is unknown. Only a few descriptions of fragments of Biant's life exist. He was famous for his wise judicial decisions.
Solon of Athens (VII-VI centuries BC)
Solon of Athens was an ancient Greek politician, legislator, philosopher and poet. He was an archon, the highest official, in Athens during a time of social unrest. During his reign, he introduced more democratic laws: he banned debt slavery, abolished all debts, divided citizens into 4 property categories and gave everyone the opportunity to participate in political life. After his archonship, Solon devoted most of his life to travel. There is even a statue of him in the Library of Congress.
Pittacus of Mytilene (VII-VI centuries BC)
Pittacus of Mytilene is an ancient Greek thinker and legislator. Presiding in a high position in the city of Mytilene, he suppressed intra-city riots and revised criminal laws. Among the Greeks he was revered on a par with Lycurgus and Solon.
Chilo Spartan (VI century BC)
Chilo of Sparta is an ancient Greek poet and politician. He was a member of the government board in Sparta. Some researchers believe that many of the norms of the living structure of Sparta belong to Chilon. Although he was not distinguished by his verbosity, the speeches he made aroused respect and honor. They say that in his old age Chilo admitted that he had not committed a single illegal act. Only once did he ask his comrade to justify a friend who had been convicted by law.
Mison of Heney (VII-VI centuries BC)
Mison of Heney is an ancient Greek sage who lived a quiet, modest life in his village. The philosopher Aristoxenus believes that Mison remained unknown precisely because he was not from the city. Mison Heneysky died at the age of 97. His name in Plato's list speaks of the wisdom of his sayings.
The most famous saying of the sage Mison of Heney.
Cleobulus of Lindia (VI-V centuries BC)
Cleobulus of Lindia is an ancient Greek sage, famous for his riddles, songs and great sayings. He was handsome and strong. He was interested in Egyptian philosophy. Some of his sayings are carved on the Delphic Temple of Apollo.
Periander of Corinth (VII-VI centuries BC)
Periander of Corinth is an ancient Greek statesman and sage. Ruled in Corinth for 40 years. Before communicating with the tyrant of the city of Miletus, Periander was very merciful. And then he became a cruel despot ruler. His policy was directed against the clan nobility. Under him, military units of mercenaries and territorial courts were created. Periander introduced customs duties, state coinage, control over the income of citizens and a law against luxury. Fearing conspiracies, he forbade gatherings in groups in public squares and surrounded himself with bodyguards. Among other things, he was a fan of beautiful architecture, as evidenced by the extensive construction during his reign.
Blessing on genocide
“...The sharp opposite of the Aryan is the Jew... The black-haired Jewish youth waits for hours with satanic joy in the eyes of unsuspecting Aryan girls, whom he will disgrace with his blood and in this way rob the nation.” Sitting in Landsberg prison, an ugly, nervous man dictated long, rhetorical commandments to his comrades in the unsuccessful putsch, calling for them to save Europe and the nation from destruction. These revelations were recorded by two of his cellmates: a native of Egypt, Rudolf Hess, and a dark, Jewish-looking Frenchman, Emile Maurice - two examples of the “true Aryan breed.”
The author of Mein Kampf has been thinking about “the culprits of our troubles” for 20 years. This ardent fighter for the purity of the race drew his ideological “capital” from the pages of a book that he learned by heart. Its title is “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” This “document” opened the eyes of the future “Führer of the German nation” to the secret mechanics of the world, and became for him a real manifesto of the “brown revolution”. From there he carefully rewrote the plans of the Jewish conspiracy, which threatened to give the whole world to the “little people.”
A person who opens the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” learns from them that the Jewish elite intended to use cunning and deceit to destroy the high-born nobility. That the Jews want to replace the old order with decadent democracy. What are their plans to seize (or maybe they have already seized?) all the gold in the world, all the banks and the media. That they are introducing new disgusting doctrines into the unstable minds of people - Marxism, Darwinism and Nietzscheanism - and destroying the traditional values that man has adhered to for many centuries. What capitalism, communism and liberalism are different shapes systematic disintegration of society by Jews. That the Jews, having finally taken possession of the world, will install a king from the line of David to rule and rule over all nations, and they will remain subordinate to him. What lies ahead of us? Pax Judaica (“Peace in the Jewish Way”)! In this beautiful world, only ghettos will be open to Aryans...
This thin book became a compilation of the most common prejudices against Jews - a kind of “anthology of anti-Semitic ideas.” Later they were washed in blood - and cursed. It seemed that, along with the reciters of those slogans and covenants, this book itself should have disappeared from people’s memory. But she is alive, her ideas are still tempting. In the countries of the Arab world, “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” was republished about fifty times (this book was especially liked by the Hero of the Soviet Union Gamal Abdel Nasser). In America, more than 30 publications have been published in just 10 years (since 1990). While reading these “Protocols,” any nationalists are complacently reconciled - from Hitler fans to radicals from the Nation of Islam. Their hatred is directed at a common enemy. “Protocols”, like a tuning fork, tune the rage of the crowd, directing its energy to a “just cause”...
...It was 1921. Three years remained before he wrote the book “My Struggle” as a prisoner at Landsberg Prison. But by that time it had already become clear that the notorious “Protocols” were nothing more than a fake. The correspondent of the London newspaper "The Times" in Istanbul, Mr. Philip Graves, managed to establish that most of the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" is... plagiarism. He was able to find the original book, which everyone had already forgotten about by that time.
As it turned out, in 1864, when France was ruled by Emperor Napoleon III, a pamphlet was published entitled “Dialogue in Hell between Machiavelli and Montesquieu, or the Politics of Machiavelli in the 19th Century.” Behind this pompous name was hidden a caustic satire. Its author, as a distraction, turned into an unknown stenographer who recorded the confessions of two famous political scientists of the past, sent to hell for reforging, ridiculed, giving free rein to hyperbole and fantasies, the politics of the “new Napoleon.” His anonymity could not protect him from the police. We don’t know whether lawyer Maurice Joly (1829–1878) ended up in hell (although how he could have found his way there), but nevertheless he received 15 months in a French prison “for his libel.” The police confiscated most of the Dialogues and destroyed them...
Over the course of three days, from August 16 to 18, 1921, Mr. Graves published a series of sensational articles in the pages of his newspaper in which he exposed the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” as a long-standing fake. He convincingly proved that this was a case of plagiarism, while the long-standing fiction was interpreted by the compilers of the “Protocols” as an immutable fact. They managed to squeeze almost 40% of the text stolen from Joly into their opus.
Mr. Graves' aimed shot, meanwhile, hit the milk. Joly's "Dialogue" remained a forgotten pamphlet, and the "Protocols" have been disturbing the minds of people for a whole century, turning their despair and vague protests into a clear, enduring hatred of the Jews...
At the beginning of the 19th century, Emperor Napoleon I equalized the civil rights of Jews with other European populations. Many Jews leave the ghetto, some of them quickly become rich. The name of the Rothschild bankers becomes a household name. They came to the forefront of history at the very end of the Napoleonic wars. In 1811–1816, almost half of all subsidies allocated by England to its continental allies passed through their hands. Their wealth aroused envy and irritation. The upstarts and nouveau riche were also greeted with hostility by representatives of the upper classes, especially those from the old, well-born nobility, who were quickly losing influence on the policies of bourgeois governments.
Jews, on the pages of liberal publications, persistently defended civil liberties, which they knew how to use with such dexterity. In the eyes of a well-intentioned society, they could not help but appear as the most dangerous troublemakers and revolutionaries. “Protect the monarchs from the indignation of the mob, and the country from the dominance of the Jews” - conservative thinkers came to this conclusion, observing with horror the decline of contemporary morals. The conclusion was made. The time has come to collect facts and prepare an indictment against “the spirit of Jewry, which broke out beyond the walls of the ghetto and vulgarized the life and culture of European peoples.”
1862 - an anonymous article was published on the pages of the Munich magazine “Historisch-politische Blaetter”. It talked about how Jews allegedly grouped behind the scenes of political life, creating “pseudo-Masonic” lodges in order to manipulate from there nationalist movements in Italian and German countries. This was said at the beginning of that decade, which blew up the usual order in Italy and Germany and united many small principalities and lands into single states. Crisis, collapse of the old... Who is to blame? Jews.
1868 - German journalist Hermann Goedsche (1815–1878), hiding under the pseudonym “Sir John Ratcliffe,” published the novel “Biarritz.” It caused a sensation in society (its name, by the way, was reminiscent of the famous French resort where Napoleon III, hated by the Prussians, loved to relax). One of the chapters of this novel, stretching over 40 pages, is entitled “In the Jewish Cemetery in Prague.” It describes a secret night meeting that took place among the graves and crypts. 12 figures dressed in white robes surrounded the tomb of the famous rabbi. These were messengers from each tribe of Israel. Undisturbed by anyone, they began to discuss how to subjugate the entire Christian world to their power. These “secret rulers of the world” organize such a gathering once every 100 years. Peoples are only pawns in their game: they exterminate Christians, pitting them against each other in fratricidal wars, and then appropriate the wealth collected by others...
Sir Ratcliffe, alias Herr Goedsche, carefully described the strategy of the Jews. Firstly, many of them are baptized, trying to merge with Christians so that it is easier to carry out their policies among them. Each such cross is a spy, each one is worse than a hundred Russian Cossacks. Secondly, they seek to subjugate exchanges, banks, etc. Cash flows can be compared to the blood vessels of the state. Jews cling to them and, like vampires, drink them without a trace. Thirdly, Jewish bankers obligingly provide loans to aristocrats, entangling them like spiders in their networks, in order to subsequently ruin and destroy them. Fourthly, they persistently seek to weaken the forces of any power, seeking the separation of church and state. Fifthly, they support troublemakers everywhere, they dream of revolutions and take an active part in each. In the end, sixthly, they subjugate all the newspapers so that ignorant people can judge what is happening only in the way that pleases the Jews...
Such was Gedsche's fantasy. It is easy to see that his ideas - with some amendments - still serve modern anti-Semites. The cartridges cast by the Prussian writer still hit the target. Newspapers? Jewish truth! Finance? Jewish money!
Biarritz became a bestseller. The chapter about the secret Jewish evening in the Prague churchyard was especially popular. Finally, someone dared to openly say what had been whispered about for so long both in the closets of the poor and in the palaces of aristocrats! It was rumored that “Sir Ratcliffe” was Jewish himself and knew what he was writing about. Soon the mentioned chapter began to be published as a separate brochure. It has been translated into many European languages. It entered the “treasury” of world anti-Semitic literature.
1886 - Parisian publicist Edouard Drumont publishes the book “Jewish France”. In a short time, 100,000 copies were sold. In subsequent years, it was reprinted 200 times! At the end of the 19th century, only 100,000 Jews lived in France (out of a population of almost 38 million), but Drumont was sure that this was too many. In those years, he published the anti-Semitic newspaper Svobodnoe Slovo. Its circulation grew to 300,000 copies in the mid-1890s. It was from the pages of this newspaper that accusations fell against the officer of the French general staff, Alfred Dreyfus, a Jew by nationality.
1894 - the trial of the “German spy” Dreyfus began. On trumped-up charges, he was sentenced to life in hard labor, but was pardoned in 1899 because otherwise American representatives refused to go to the 1900 Paris World Exhibition. It was necessary to choose between profit and integrity. In 1906, Dreyfus - by the way, an unpleasant person in himself: an upstart, a braggart, a spendthrift - was rehabilitated.
The “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”, which arose on this wave, as established today, were concocted by immigrants from Russia. Pyotr Ivanovich Rachkovsky (1853–1911) had a direct hand in them. In St. Petersburg he was considered a leading figure in falsifications and a brilliant master of ideological propaganda. 1882 - Rachkovsky headed the Paris bureau of the Tsarist secret police. In those years, a large colony of Russian revolutionaries lived in the French capital - emigrants of the “minus of the first wave”. Rachkovsky followed their activities with attention. His extensive connections helped him. In particular, he was well acquainted with the chief of police of Paris and, on occasion, visited the salon of his wife Juliette.
By the end of the 19th century, about 5 million Jews lived in Tsarist Russia. Most of them were forced to huddle “beyond the Pale of Settlement” - in poor towns and towns in Ukraine and Belarus. Some of the Jews became rich by becoming money changers or merchants. This caused resentment and envy: “Who multiplied the poor?” Jews? Of course, not only them, and not primarily them. And yet it is the Jews who “do not the worst people in Russia” (words by N.S. Leskov) - became the object of persecution provoked from above. These infidels, who were also unpopular in other countries, could easily be blamed for all the troubles. Already in 1881–1882, the first pogroms began to break out in the south of Russia.
Historians suggest that in high government spheres it was decided to entrust Mr. Rachkovsky's art to instigate an anti-Jewish campaign. There could be several undoubted benefits from this. These are the motives that could have guided the people who began fabricating the “Protocols.”
IN Russian Empire The revolutionary movement was growing. It was necessary to discredit him. Why not present the young people who went to the revolution as collaborators with “international Jewry”? This will cause everyone to dislike them.
Jews, especially wealthy ones, must be forced to emigrate from Russia. This will give an advantage to their Russian competitors.
We need to improve Russia's international prestige. Pogroms - a relic of the Middle Ages - can only be justified by the fact that the Jews were preparing a conspiracy against the government and even “against all governments in the world.”
In the end, the international situation was also convenient. France was split by the struggle between supporters and opponents of Dreyfus. At the same time, in August 1897, the First Zionist Congress took place in Basel. In this “kahal” of Jews gathered from all over the world, it was easy to see a prototype of the secret gathering of the tribes of Israel...
1891, June 6 - P. Rachkovsky informed his boss in St. Petersburg that the pogroms in Russia were causing disapproving responses in the French press. Therefore, the head of the foreign agents of the police department in Paris proposed, by launching a skillful campaign of slander and discredit, to nip in the bud any sympathy for the Jews and to whitewash any measures taken against them.
The authorities hesitated for a long time. Work began only in 1894. The main sources were a pamphlet by Maurice Joly and a chapter about a meeting in a Prague cemetery from Hermann Goedsche's novel Biarritz. Rachkovsky probably learned about Jolie's pamphlet in Madame Adam's salon. The style of presentation and some of the ideas seemed very interesting, especially since the first version of the “Protocols” was compiled in French. Russian aristocrat Catherine Radziwill saw their manuscript, read it, as she admitted many years later, and noted how strange and unnatural the French language in which they were supposedly written sounded. 1897 - the text was ready. “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” was translated into Russian.
The decisive moment has arrived. How to present them to the public so that they do not recognize a fake? The slightest mistake and a major scandal will occur!
Historians have quite accurately traced the fate of the manuscript on its way from the manufacturers to the reader. The first link in this chain was Yuliana Dmitrievna Glinka (1844–1918). The daughter of the Russian envoy in Lisbon, the maid of honor of the Empress, an admirer of Blavatsky, she loved to visit Juliette Adam's salon in Paris and, perhaps, was an employee of Rachkovsky. So she admitted that under very unusual circumstances she came into possession of a strange manuscript...
Once she had a chance to pay a visit to a Jewish friend named Shapiro. It was already late. Suddenly a manuscript written in French caught her eye. The curious lady leafed through it and, realizing that she was dealing with something highly secret, began immediately translating it into Russian. She never left Shapiro's house that night, spending time with pen, ink and paper. By the next morning, this hardworking lady was able to translate the entire treatise she liked, which had been recklessly abandoned by her hospitable host. She eventually left Shapiro's house, smuggling away (in a reticule? corset? pantaloons?) the manuscript of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Obviously, these events took place on the longest night of the year - the volume of the brochure (more than 80 pages) suggests such an idea - and in the hands of Mrs. Glinka was the largest reticule in the world (we will keep silent about other versions).
Returning to Russia, the lady shared her booty with retired major Alexei Nikolaevich Sukhotin, who lived nearby. She convinced that the manuscript was “obtained from the secret repositories of the main Zion chancellery.” Sukhotin immediately handed it to his neighbor on the estate, government official Philip Petrovich Stepanov. “He said that a lady he knew (he did not name her for me), who lived in Paris, found them with her friend (Jewish, it seems) and, before leaving Paris, secretly translated them from him and brought this translation, in one copy, to Russia and transferred this copy,” Stepanov later recalled.
The official, who did not suspect the trick, was the first distributor of this manuscript. He entitled it “The Enslavement of the World by the Jews” and printed 100 copies on a hectograph. Prominent dignitaries, ministers and even members of the Romanov dynasty - Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, the emperor's uncle, and his wife Elizaveta Feodorovna, the empress's sister, were honored with reading these leaflets. Many of those who read the manuscript suspected the intrigues of the security department and hastened to stay away from the scandalous pamphlet. But Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich and his wife were convinced of the authenticity of the revelations given. The uncle introduced his nephew, Emperor Nicholas II, and his wife Alexandra Fedorovna to the “Enslavement of the World.” At first, the king was amazed by what he read: “What depth of thought!” But, having learned from his ministers what the origin of this manuscript was, he was horrified. In his diary, he wrote that he decided to refuse any support for this work: “You cannot defend a pure cause with dirty methods.”
A copy of the manuscript also fell into the hands of Pavel Krushevan, editor-publisher of the Znamya newspaper, one of the leaders of the Black Hundred, organizer of the pogrom in Chisinau, where 45 Jews were killed. Krushevant immediately considered the “protocols of the sages” to be an authentic document and in 1903 published them in the pages of his newspaper under the title “Program for the Conquest of the World by the Jews.” The publication stretched from August 28 to September 7 and aroused great interest. The final point in the history of this fake was put in 1905 by the writer Sergei Nilus (1861–1929). A wealthy landowner in the Oryol province, he lived for a long time in Biarritz with his mistress, but suddenly received the most unpleasant news from his manager: “I’m ruined, it turns out!” The news shocked him. His whole life went differently now. He turned into an eternal wanderer, wandering from one monastery to another and everywhere finding conspiracies against God.
On all the objects around him, he looked for the terrible stars of David. And the “Protocols” amazed him to such an extent (“This is a document!”) that he released them as an appendix to his novel “Big in Small and as a Close Political Possibility.” Nilus was preparing to present this luxuriously published book to Nicholas II. His wife, Elena Alexandrovna Ozerova, was the queen's maid of honor. She easily obtained permission to reprint the brochure.
Most of those who read this work believed everything written in it. Only some intellectuals protested. Thus, Maxim Gorky sharply criticized the “Protocols”.
After the October revolution, comrades Ulyanov-Blank, Zinoviev-Radomyslsky, Kamenev-Rozenfeld, Sverdlov, Trotsky-Bronstein came to power in Russia. The Empress of Russia died, one might say, with the “Protocols” in her hands, as befitted a victim of a Jewish conspiracy: in the Ipatiev house, where she spent last days, she had only three books - the Bible, the first volume of “War and Peace” and Nilus’s story with “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion”. And the heirs of ancient Russian families, intellectuals, military men, engineers fled to the West, taking away in their suitcases and reticules a brochure in which, long before the revolution, everything that was going to happen in the country was accurately predicted. Rescued from the Russian Revolution, the Protocols began a truly triumphant march throughout all European countries. First of all, they returned to where they were born - to France. But the Protocols found particularly fertile ground in Germany.
1918 - revolution broke out in Germany. Returning home, German soldiers and officers did not recognize their country - it was sliding into chaos, becoming a toy in the hands of fanatical agitators and rebellious soldiers. Under the pressure of the Entente's superior forces, Germany, devastated by the war, capitulated. After such a disaster, it was impossible not to think about who was to blame for what was happening. But who is the culprit of all the troubles that have befallen the country? This thought repeatedly beat in the inflamed brain of the most famous German outcast of the 20th century - Adolf Hitler. The same thoughts were beating in the minds of many of his fellow citizens.
Alfred Hugenberg, an ardent German nationalist, one of the founders of the Pan-German League, the owner of many German newspapers and publishing houses (where were the Jews looking?), established vigorous activity in replicating the “Protocols”. In the immediate post-war years, hundreds of thousands of copies of the Protocols were sold in Germany. This brochure has become a reference book for builders. Lines from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion resonated across hundreds of pages of Mein Kampf.
The Protocols were also very popular among the winners. Their first English version appeared in 1920. It was distributed by the Moscow correspondent of the Morning Post, Victor Marsden. He had lived through terrible times in Russia and was now sure that all the worst things in this world came from the Jews. However, the majority of residents of Great Britain - a country where Benjamin Disraeli was Prime Minister for almost 10 years - were skeptical about this publication: “If the fruit of a meeting of the most prominent Jews of the whole world, who absorbed all the wisdom accumulated by generations of their ancestors, is this modest book, then it’s time to doubt the wisdom and intelligence of the Jewish race.”
The brochure also found an influential admirer in America - automobile magnate Henry Ford. 1920 - He published “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” in the pages of his newspaper, the Dearborn Independent. Inspired by them, Henry Ford even published his own opus dedicated to the same topic. "International Jewry". In it, he accused the Jews of all sorts of crimes, for example, that, corrupting the souls of ordinary American workers, they came up with such vicious entertainment as cinematography and jazz. However, in 1927, the fighter against Zion threw out the white flag and took back his accusations, because they harmed the reputation of the company. He even had to publicly apologize. Ford insisted that “it was only out of naivety” that he believed in the authenticity of these “Protocols.”
The entire circulation of his own book was loaded onto three trucks, taken away and burned. Naive Ford! The genie was already out of the bottle. In Europe, his book enjoyed wild success, although the author, turning to the courts, demanded an immediate ban on its reprint. These days, Ford's International Jewry is reprinted as regularly as Ford cars are produced.
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion successfully survived the Second world war and the defeat of the Nazis, denazification and prosecutions for pro-fascist views, although they also bear, albeit indirectly, blame for the Holocaust. What do historians say about this? “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion are largely responsible for the genocidal policies of the Nazis,” says Norman Cohn, author of A Blessing for Genocide. His other colleagues are more lenient.
“The Protocols only indirectly justified anti-Semitic actions, but did not incite them,” says Michael Berger, professor Jewish history University of Munich. “The whole fault of the Protocols lies not in the fact that they called for some open anti-Semitic speeches, but in the fact that they sowed distrust in the Jews and convinced them to deny them help and sympathy,” notes US historian Richard S. Levi.
The 20th century has disappeared over the horizon, and yet new packs of “Protocols” appear on trays. Their poisonous revelations are still taken for granted. Their admirers, as before, see in every Jew a “mysterious machine” for the destruction of European and Asian peoples, set in motion by certain “puppeteers” from Zion, and are ready to defend the purity of their race with arms in hand...
The madman complains that people don't know him, the wise man complains that he doesn't know people.
There are many things in the world that a wise man would rather not know about.
Ralph Emerson
Wise is the one who knows not much, but what is necessary.
Aeschylus
When asked why people give alms to the poor and not to philosophers, he said: “Because they know: they may become lame and blind, but never wise.”
Diogenes
The real sign by which you can recognize a true sage is patience.
Henrik Ibsen
Everything is in the power of the gods; sages are friends of the gods; but friends have everything in common; therefore, everything in the world belongs to the wise.
Diogenes of Sinope
Honor and shame from powerful of the world(to the sage) equally strange.
Lao Tzu (Li Er)
A wise man should not stop in a city that does not have five things: first, a just sovereign and a strict and authoritative ruler; secondly, running waters and rich lands; thirdly, scientists with practical knowledge and endowed with moderation; fourthly, skillful and compassionate healers; fifthly, generous benefactors.
As-Samarkandi
If a wise man falls among fools, he should not expect honor from them, and if a fool defeats a wise man with his chatter, then there is nothing surprising in this, for a stone can split a diamond.
Saadi
If a wise man among ill-mannered people fails to say a word, do not be surprised: the sound of the lute is not heard during the roar of the drum, and the aroma of ambergris disappears from the stench of garlic.
Saadi
...Not a single sage, no matter how poor, weak in body, deprived of earthly goods, would prefer the life of a tyrant or some ruler mired in vices, but would reasonably wish to remain in his condition.
Pietro Pomponazzi
A wise person appreciates everyone, because he notices the good in everyone.
Baltasar Gracian y Morales
The equanimity of the sages is just the ability to hide their feelings in the depths.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The smart one will knock down the lock and steal the horse from the stall, but the wise one will be lazy.
Thomas Fuller
a wise man lives by his wits and his wallet. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield There are more foolish people than wise men, and even a wise man has more foolishness than wisdom.
Nicola Sebastian Chamfort
Instruct a wise man, and he will become even wiser.
Daniil Sharpener
If you want to look good next to a sage, make a good impression on him; and if you want to look good next to a fool, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
No one can be a great thinker if he, as a thinker, does not first of all make it his duty to follow his reason, no matter what conclusions it may lead him to.
John Stuart Mill
Wise people think about their thoughts, foolish people proclaim them.
Heinrich Heine
A fool guesses; On the contrary, a sage goes through life like a vegetable garden, knowing in advance that here and there a turnip will be pulled out for him, and here and there a radish.
Kozma Prutkov
The sage is more than God: he corrects the evil that God allows on our absurd globe.
Pierre Sylvain Marechal
In the desert, and from time immemorial, honest, free minds lived as lords of the desert; and in the cities live famous sages - fattened beasts of burden. Always, like donkeys, they pull the cart of the people!
All of you served the people and popular superstition, - you, illustrious sages! - and not the truth!
Friedrich Nietzsche
There is less difference between an idiot and a wise man than between the dead and the living.
Antonio Miro
When thinkers' thoughts spin quickly, the non-thinking public's head spins.
Vasily Osipovich Klyuchevsky
The wise one is the one who feels his duty towards the present more clearly than others, who is the most modern person.
Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin
Genius thinkers are even rarer than somnambulists.
Franz Brentano
The wise man remains a child throughout his life, and answers alone dry up the soil and the breath.
Elias Canetti
Wisdom does not write letters.
Emil Michel Cioran
In a thinker, I am interested not in ideas, but in experience: not what he thought, but what he experienced.
Emil Michel Cioran
Wise men do not know more than fools - they only have more courage and self-confidence.
Lev Shestov
The sage is like archery, where the archer is both the one who shoots and the thing at which the arrow is shot.
Gilles Deleuze
To identify with reason is a very tempting position for any thinker.
Pierre Bourdieu
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In many cultures, a person is especially revered, often an elder, endowed with wisdom that is often attributed to divine origin. In Greece, they distinguished between “sages” (sophoi, cf. seven sages) and “lovers of wisdom” philosophers... ... Wikipedia
Thinker, philosopher; head, hakim, talent, khudog, buddha, sorcerer, wise man, solomon, wise man, clever man, clever man, wise woman, wise man, genius, intellectual. Ant. ignoramus, layman Dictionary of Russian synonyms. sage 1. see philosopher. 2. cm... Synonym dictionary
SAGE, sage, husband. 1. A thinker possessing the highest knowledge, a teacher of life (book obsolete). “There is no movement,” said the brave sage.” Pushkin. Ancient sages. The wise man said: everything flows. And the king called the wise men from all over the world (fairy tale). 2. Man... ... Ushakov's Explanatory Dictionary
Sage- Sage ♦ Sage A person who, to be happy, does not need to lie to himself, nor amuse himself with fairy tales, nor even hope for luck. One could say that he is self-sufficient and therefore free. The truth, however, is that the sage... ... Philosophical Dictionary Sponville
WISE, huh, husband. A wise man. Simplicity is enough for every wise man (the message is that even a smart person can make mistakes, can be deceived). Ozhegov's explanatory dictionary. S.I. Ozhegov, N.Yu. Shvedova. 1949 1992 … Ozhegov's Explanatory Dictionary
sage- thoughtful (Bykov) Epithets of literary Russian speech. M: Supplier of His Majesty's court, the Quick Printing Association A. A. Levenson. A. L. Zelenetsky. 1913 ... Dictionary of epithets
Sage F1- see Early ripening. Fruit ripening occurs on days 101–112 after full germination. The plant is semi-determinate, weakly branched, medium leafy, 170-190 cm high, medium size, green, smooth. The inflorescence is simple, compact. First… … Encyclopedia of seeds. Vegetables
Eastern sage. Narc. Joking. iron. A person under the influence of a smoked drug. SSV 2000. Foolish sage. Jarg. school Joking. iron. Excellent student. (Recorded 2003) ... Large dictionary of Russian sayings
- @font face (font family: ChurchArial; src: url(/fonts/ARIAL Church 02.ttf);) span (font size:17px;font weight:normal !important; font family: ChurchArial ,Arial,Serif;) (Greek: σοφίστης) musician, poet, artist, inventor, sage,… … Dictionary of Church Slavonic language
sage- great sage... Dictionary of Russian Idioms
Books
- Sage, Christopher Stasheff. He was the savior of his people, the only person who dared to fight the mighty gods - and win. The only one who became equal to the gods with his exploits. The only one who...