Nikolai Fyodorov Quotes on Nature
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 nature, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Nikolai Fyodorov:
“The earth is too narrow; humanity must inherit the cosmos.”
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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 -
“[T]he rural problem is (1) loss of kinship between men who, through ignorance, forget their relatedness, and (2) the hostility of nature to humans, which is felt most acutely if not exclusively in villages, where people confront the blind force directly; whereas townsfolk, being remote from nature, may think that man lives at one with nature.”
Part I, § 4, p. 39 -
“Only when all men come to participate in knowledge will pure science, which perceives nature as a whole in which the sentient is sacrificed to the insensate, cease to be indifferent to this distorted attitude of the conscious being to the unconscious force.”
Part I, § 5, p. 40