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In work we act under the predominant motive of external, rational necessities; in pleasure, under the predominant motive of other, equally general necessities of human nature. Rest or recreation is the element in which the personality seeks to renew its strength from these stimuli that exhaust the reserve of human resources. It's an element introduced into life by the person himself.

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Science is the repository of the experience and thinking of the human race. It is mainly through science that the ideas, and then the morals and life of people, are improved.

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Our time is a time of great discoveries and firm scientific convictions.

Nikolay Chernyshevsky

To renounce progress is as silly as to renounce the Earth's force of gravitation.

Nikolay Chernyshevsky

Nikolay Chernyshevsky

Nikolay Chernyshevsky

Born: July 12, 1828

Died: October 17, 1889 (aged 61)

Bio: Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky was a Russian revolutionary democrat, materialist philosopher, critic, and socialist.

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