Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Ivan Turgenev

Quote by Ivan Turgenev

“We Russians have assigned ourselves no other task in life but the cultivation of our own personalities, and when we're barely past childhood, we set to work to cultivate them, those unfortunate personalities.”

Quote by Ivan Turgenev

Create image

Author

Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Turgenev

A renowned Russian novelist, born on November 9, 1818, and died on September 3, 1883. His works deeply depicted the changes in Russian society, particularly focusing on the lives of peasants and nobility. His representative works include 'Notes of a Hunter' and 'Fathers and Sons'. more

You May Also Like

“It would seem that the ingratitude, whereby a subsequent sin causes the return of sins previously forgiven, is a special sin. For, the giving of thanks belongs to counter passion, which is a necessary condition of justice. But justice is a special virtue. Therefore this ingratitude is a special sin. Thanksgiving is a special virtue. But ingratitude is opposed to thanksgiving. Therefore ingratitude is a special sin.”

GivingSeemsPassionCausesJusticeSinVirtueSpecialConditionsReturnThanksForgivenThanksgivingIngratitude
Author:Thomas Aquinas
Create image

“For creation is not a change, but that dependence of the created existence on the principle from which it is instituted, and thus is of the genus of relation; whence nothing prohibits it being in the created as in the subject. Creation is thus said to be a kind of change, according to the way of understanding, insofar as our intellect accepts one and the same thing as not existing before and afterwards existing.”

WayKindSaidUnderstandingExistenceAcceptingPrinciplesSubjectsCreationRelationIntellectDependence
Author:Thomas Aquinas
Create image