Russian Philosopher Quotes

Ayn Rand

Peter Kropotkin

Mikhail Bakunin

Georgi Plekhanov

Mikhail Bakhtin

Nikolai Berdyaev

P. D. Ouspensky

A good man never wholly perishes, the best part of his being outlives in eternity.

To preserve one's mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth it and the stakes are the highest possible to man: the survival of reason.

Waste of time is the leading feature of our present education. Not only are we taught a mass of rubbish, but what is not rubbish is taught so as to make us waste over it as much time as possible.

Peter Kropotkin

All words have the "taste" of a profession, a genre, a tendency, a party, a particular work, a particular person, a generation, an age group, the day and hour. Each word tastes of the context and contexts in which it has lived its socially charged life...

Mikhail Bakhtin

They were right. The Soviet régime is not the embodiment of evil as you think in the West. They have laws and I broke them. I hate tea and they love tea. Who is wrong?

Aleksandr Zinovyev

If God existed, only in one way could he serve the cause of human liberty-by ceasing to exist.

Mikhail Bakunin

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!

Simon Soloveychik

Ethics occupies a central place in philosophy because it is concerned with sin, with the origin of good and evil and with moral valuations. And since these problems have a universal significance, the sphere of ethics is wider than is generally supposed. It deals with meaning and value and its province is the world in which the distinction between good and evil is drawn, evaluations are made and meaning is sought.

Nikolai Berdyaev

The most difficult thing is to know what we do know, and what we do not know.

P. D. Ouspensky

Children like to work, and are always eager to imitate the work of adults.

Georgi Plekhanov

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

Nikolay Chernyshevsky