Pyotr Chaadayev
Pyotr Yakovlevich Chaadayev (Russian: Пётр Я́ковлевич Чаада́ев; 7 June [27 May O.S.] 1794 – 26 April [14 April O.S.] 1856) was a Russian philosopher. He was one of the Russian Schellingians.
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Quotes
[edit]- Nous sommes du nombre de ces nations qui ne semblent pas faire partie intégrante du genre humain mais qui n’existent que pour donner quelque grande leçon au monde.
- We are an exception among people. We belong to those who are not an integral part of humanity but exist only to teach the world some type of great lesson.
- Philosophical Letters (1836) no. 1. Translation quoted as epigraph in David Satter, Age of Delirium: The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Union (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996) prologue
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