Vissarion Belinsky Quotes

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In science one must search for ideas. If there are no ideas, there is no science. A knowledge of facts is only valuable in so far as facts conceal ideas: facts without ideas are just the sweepings of the brain and the memory.

Vissarion Belinsky

In science you must look for ideas. No ideas, no science. Knowledge of the facts is precious, because facts are laden with ideas. Facts without ideas are tripe for the brain and for the memory.

Vissarion Belinsky

Without the striving for infinity there is no life, no development, and no progress.

Vissarion Belinsky

Vissarion Belinsky

Vissarion Belinsky

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Born: June 11, 1811

Died: June 7, 1848 (aged 36)

Bio: Vissarion Grigoryevich Belinsky was a Russian literary critic of Westernizing tendency. He was an associate of Alexander Herzen, Mikhail Bakunin, and other critical intellectuals.

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