Nikolay Chernyshevsky Quotes

Russia, Philosopher
July 12, 1828 – October, 17, 1889.

Nikolay Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky[a] was a Russian revolutionary democrat, materialist philosopher, critic, and socialist (seen by some as a utopian socialist). He was the leader of the revolutionary democratic movement of the 1860s, and had an influence on Vladimir Lenin, Emma Goldman, and Serbian political writer and socialist Svetozar Marković.

Also known as Critic, Revolutionary

Beauty is life; beautiful is that being in which we see life as it should be according to our conceptions; beautiful is the object which expresses, or reminds us of life.

Nikolay Chernyshevsky
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.

Nikolay Chernyshevsky
- Rest
- Human
- Resources