Russian Philosophy Quotes

“Other feelings too can be philosophical—pain, grief, tedium, delight, exultation—if they are experienced on behalf of humankind. “I looked around me, and my soul became wounded by the suffering of mankind” is the opening of Alexander Radishchev’s “Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow” (1790), which laid the foundation of all subsequent Russian philosophy. It is a philosophy shaped by feelings of suffering and compassion, by the Karamazovian question of how to justify a child’s tears. The range of philosophical feelings is wide.”
― Mikhail Epstein

“the elaboration of a religious philosophy of history would appear to be the specific mission of Russian philosophical thought”
― Nikolai Berdyaev, The Meaning of History