The great and mighty Russian language! Statements about the language: famous expressions of writers, poets and thinkers

Great, powerful, free, truthful Russian! The statements about the language of our people are numerous and beautiful, and the most famous, perhaps, is a quotation belonging to Ivan Turgenev. And these lines belong to him. But this is not the only winged aphorism devoted to this topic, so it's worth discussing it in more detail.

What Great People Say

One has only to listen to what beautiful words great people say about our language, how pride awakens in the depths of their hearts. A lush, clever, poetic, flexible and inexhaustibly rich instrument of social life - that's how Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy speaks about the language. It's no secret that he loved our language. Statements about the language belonging to his authorship show how much this person is devoted to his people and how he appreciates what he was given. He never tired of saying that the speech, commanded by the Russian state, has such abundance and wealth that no European language can boast. The great writer did not hesitate to call it perfection, because that's how it really is. And with this it is simply impossible to argue.

Quotes of Lomonosov

The great scientist and writer, Mikhail Vasilyevich, also loved our language. The statements about the language that belong to his pen clearly illustrate this. In addition, the scientist, like many other thinkers and poets of the time, turns to history in his quotations. He says that the greatness and strength of our language comes from those books that were written by our distant ancestors. They did not know that there were rules for spelling, stylistics and semantics, and did not even think that they could be. Nevertheless, their aphorisms exist even now. Even though there were no rules before, the beauty of our language did not fade from it. Moreover - hardly in our time there are so many new winged expressions with a deep meaning, how many they were several centuries ago.

And Mikhail Lomonosov noted a very correct feature concerning Russian speech. The writer said that it is not only the state language of a huge country, but is considered the master of other languages, which opens up a vast space before the whole world. It is difficult to disagree with this. After all, the Russian language today is one of the most popular in the whole world.

Thoughts of foreign personalities

Not only Russian writers, poets and thinkers revered the language. Statements about the language of foreign leaders also occupy an important place. To some extent they are even more weighty than some aphorisms of Russian writers. After all, everyone knows that at times the outside view can say much more. Friedrich Engels, a German philosopher, confidently stated that the Russian language deserves to be studied all over the world. And it's not just that: the Russian language is the richest, lively and strong of the existing ones. And the literature written on it is unique.

It is really hard not to agree with the German philosopher. Approximately the same thing was said by Prosper Merimee, a famous French writer. He argued that the Russian language seemed to be created in order to express something refined on it. The writer said that even one word is enough to convey the idea. But other languages would require several proposals for this.

A glance in the future

Unfortunately, not all statements of the great ones about the Russian language cause emotions of delight and greatness. There are also those that make us seriously think about our reality. Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin, for example, said a phrase that terribly resembles modern reality. He said that our beautiful language, under the pen of the ignoramus, very quickly tends to fall. Grammar and words are distorted, and orthography changes at will of anyone. It is interesting that this phrase came to us from the beginning of the XIX century. But the relevance of it is not at all obsolete, even on the contrary. Unfortunately, the writer was right - the degradation of the language only progresses.

But it is not all that bad! After all, as Alexander Kuprin said, "the Russian language in the experimental mouths is incredibly melodious, expressive and beautiful." Fortunately, in our time there are the same aesthetes and lovers of beautiful speeches. So our language will live as long as the love of the Russian people does not fade.

Philosophical statements of people about the Russian language

Discuss the place of the native language in the life of the people in general and each person in particular can be forever. And although to date, new expressions of writers about Russian are appearing less and less, we have a cultural heritage that has survived to our times from different ages. And among these quotes there are a lot of aphorisms, in which a certain philosophical meaning lurks. For example, Paustovsky spoke about punctuation marks. He said that these are "musical notation, which firmly hold the text, not allowing it to crumble." They are designed to highlight the idea and give the phrase the right sound.

Well, there are a lot of different winged expressions dedicated to our language. They should be known. Of course, it is necessary to remember the uniqueness and uniqueness of the Russian language, not to pollute it and show respect. This is our history and culture, which we are obliged to preserve and transmit to our descendants.