Whatever field of human activity one may take, only those trends that are in harmony with the needs of society show rapid progress.

- Nikolay Chernyshevsky

History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.

- Nikolay Chernyshevsky

In work we act under the predominant motive of external, rational necessities; in pleasure, under the predominant motive of other, equally general ne…

- Nikolay Chernyshevsky