Quotes by Alexander Radishchev

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This is how man crawls when he wants to capture nature in action. He imagines points and lines, when he wants to imitate his image; he imagines its motion and weight, when he wants to imitate its force; he divides time into years, days, and hours, when he wants to express its flow, or takes his step as the measure of its extent. But the measure of nature is not the step, nor the millions and millions of steps, but infinity; time is not hers, but man's; its force and images are the essence of life in general.

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The more man knows, the more nature reveals its secrets.

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The more man penetrates into the essence of nature, the more obvious the simplicity of its laws becomes.

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Man made many discoveries, penetrated the secrets of the universe, left nothing undiscovered, knew the laws of nature. Man's purpose is to discover the rationality of the universe in its diversity. Man fought for life, overcame obstacles, even tried to know the Creator. O mortal! Wake up and follow your voice of reason because it is the spark of God.

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You only become a man when you learn to see the man in your neighbor.

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As there are ways to knowledge, there are as many ways to error.

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Priests have always been the ones who limited the possibility and desire of people to gain their freedom of thought, they clipped their wings, lest they take their flight to the sublime and freedom.

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Nothing is more familiar to us, nothing seems simpler to us than speech, but in reality, there is nothing more wonderful than this.

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Thus, error stands next to truth, and how can a man not err? If his knowledge were deep, then our judgment would be not only sure, but also clear! For the opposite of any judgment would have been impossible. In such a situation, man would never be wrong.

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And thus everything that exists in time and space contains within itself the concept of the unintelligible; and so is our knowledge, which consists only of information derived from what exists in time and space.

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I call virtue the habit of acting in a way that is useful for the whole society.

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As physical exercise strengthens the health of the body, so mental exercise strengthens the reason.