Pyotr Chaadaev Quotes on Time
Pyotr Yakovlevich Chaadaev was a Russian philosopher and the catalyst of nineteenth-century Russian self-questioning. This page collects quotes attributed to Pyotr Chaadaev on the topic of time, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Pyotr Chaadaev:
“Russia stands apart from the great human family, contributing nothing to the progress of the human spirit.”
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Attributed to Pyotr Chaadaev:
“We are a people who exist outside time, untouched by the universal education of mankind.”
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Attributed to Pyotr Chaadaev:
“Without a meaningful past, a nation has no claim upon the future.”
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“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”
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.