Nikolai Fyodorov Quotes on Death
Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov was a Russian Orthodox religious philosopher, librarian, and the founder of the movement of thought known as Russian cosmism. This page collects quotes attributed to Nikolai Fyodorov on the topic of death, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Nikolai Fyodorov:
“The common task of humanity is the conquest of death.”
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Attributed to Nikolai Fyodorov:
“Science must serve the resurrection of the dead, not the destruction of the living.”
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“[The] transformation of the blind course of nature into one that is rational [...] is bound to appear to the learned as a disruption of order, although this order of theirs brings only disorder among men, striking them down with famine, plague, and death.”
Quoted by Ed Tandy in " N.F. Fedorov, Russian Come-Upist -
“How unnatural it is to ask, ‘Why does that which exist, exist?' and yet how completely natural it is to ask, ‘Why do the living die?”
Quoted by Ed Tandy in " N.F. Fedorov, Russian Come-Upist -
“The problem of the force which brings the two sexes to unite and give birth to a third being is also a problem of death.”
Part I, § 9, p. 43