Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Nikolay Chernyshevsky

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a novelist Nikolay Chernyshevsky.
Last updated on November 13, 2024.
Nikolay Chernyshevsky

Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky (24 July [O.S. 12 July] 1828 – 29 October [O.S. 17 October] 1889) was a Russian literary and social critic, journalist, novelist, democrat, and socialist philosopher, often identified as a utopian socialist and leading theoretician of Russian nihilism. He was the dominant intellectual figure of the 1860s revolutionary democratic movement in Russia, despite spending much of his later life in exile to Siberia, and was later highly praised by Karl Marx, Georgi Plekhanov, and Vladimir Lenin.

Novelist | July 12, 1828 - October 17, 1889
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.
Whatever field of human activity one may take, only those trends that are in harmony with the needs of society show rapid progress. — © Nikolay Chernyshevsky
Whatever field of human activity one may take, only those trends that are in harmony with the needs of society show rapid progress.
History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.
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