Author of quotes: Pyotr Yakovlevich Chaadayev

I learned to love my homeland with my eyes closed, with her head bowed, with locked lips. I find that people can be useful to his country only if well aware of it; I think that the time of blind loves has passed, now we are first home the truth. I love my country as Peter the Great taught me to love it. Alien to me, I confess, this blessed patriotism, the patriotism of laziness, who manages to see everything in pink light and worn with his illusions, and which, unfortunately, is now suffering many sensible minds.

The disease is only contagious, health is not contagious; the same with delusion and truth. That's why the confusion spread rapidly, and the truth is so slow.

... that the instinct of the masses is infinitely more passionate, more narrow and selfish than the instincts of the individual; that the so-called common sense of the people does not have common sense; which is not amongst the crowd the truth is born; that it is impossible to Express the number; finally, in all of its power and brilliance of the human mind has always found only in the lone mind, which is the center and sun of its sphere.

Too often forget that the Savior came into the world not to ask him riddles, but in order to give a clue.

On the educational business in Russia can be installed absolutely special look, it is possible to give a national basis, is fundamentally at odds with that on which it rests in the rest of Europe, because Russia has developed in all respects otherwise, and she fell to the share of special purpose in this world.

What would have become of the world if I didn't come to Jesus Christ? Nothing.

Vanity begets a fool, arrogance - anger.

Only the clairvoyant eye relief: here is the whole philosophy of Christianity.

Russian liberal meaningless gnats, pounding in the Sunny beam; the sun is the sun of the West.

Away self-love, out of selfishness. They kill happiness. To live for others means to live for yourself. Kindness, endless love for your kind here, believe me, true bliss; there is no other.

Beautiful thing - the love for the Fatherland, but there is still something more wonderful is the love of truth. Love for the Fatherland gives birth to heroes, love of truth creates sages, of benefactors of mankind. Love of country divides Nations, nourishes and national hatred and sometimes clothes the land in mourning; the love of truth spreads the light of knowledge, creates a spiritual enjoyment, brings people to the deity. Not through the Motherland, and through the truth leads the way to heaven.

Do not understand anything in Christianity those who don't notice its purely historical side, part of such a significant part of the creed that it to some extent is the whole philosophy of Christianity, as it reveals what it did to people and what he will do for them in the future. In this sense, the Christian religion is revealed not only as a system of morality adopted in the transient forms of the human mind, but also as divine eternal force of the universal way in the spiritual world, so that its visible manifestation is to serve us a constant sermon. This is own sense of the dogma, expressed in the creed of the one universal Church.

No one feels entitled to get anything without giving himself the trouble at least to stretch out this hand. There is only one exception - happiness. I believe it is absolutely natural to have the happiness of having done nothing to acquire it, you have to earn it.

The unbeliever, in my opinion, is likened to bumbling circus performer on a tightrope, which, standing on one leg, awkward looking balance the other.