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Herzen came to the conclusion that the capitalist path of development is not necessary for Russia, and it does not make sense to overcome all the difficulties of this path in order to arrive at those ugly forms of social life that have reigned in the West.

Westerners believed that Russia needed to assimilate European science and the fruits of enlightenment, and first of all Western philosophy, which shows a person both the purpose of life and the path to achieving this goal.

The Slavophiles were characterized by an idealization of the historical past of Rus' (and in particular, pre-Petrine Rus'). They believed that Russian culture and political life were developing along their own path, different from the Western one. They associated the peculiarity of the historical path of Russia with the specificity of the Russian

Tyrannical rule corrupts the minds of the people.

We owe our entire civilization, everything that we are, to our monarchs.

Providence has created us too strong to be selfish, for it has placed us outside the interests of nationalities and entrusted to us the interests of humanity.

We have never walked together with other peoples, we do not belong to any of the great families of humanity, neither to the West nor to the East, we have no traditions of either one. We exist, as it were, outside of time, and the universal education of the human race has not touched us.

The laws are established by God, and man can only cognize and fulfill them. And only in blindness can a person consider himself the creator of any laws.

The illegal activities of the sovereign allow the people to judge him.

Peace captivity is still better than civil war.

Eternity is not a dream.

Lomonosov, admitting the creation of the world by God, believed that God no longer interferes in the affairs of nature, therefore Lomonosov was inclined to a materialistic explanation of nature.

It’s not enough, we should take Russia for a walk!

I’ll tell you how to distinguish a real person from an ordinary person, now he’s supposedly fighting for Ukraine, but he doesn’t notice and doesn’t want to think about the fact that the image instilled in him of an unwashed,