Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, sometimes anglicised to Thomas Masaryk (7 March 1850 – 14 September 1937), was a Czechoslovak politician, statesman, sociologist and philosopher, the first president of Czechoslovakia.

Quotes

• [I]t redounds to the honour of Russian literature that the leading spirits of that literature were the most efficient adversaries of slavery.
  • Garrigue Masaryk, Thomas (1919), The Spirit of Russia, I, p. 137 

• Theology is to-day recognised to be the instrument of myth, philosophy to be the instrument of science.
  • Garrigue Masaryk, Thomas (1919), The Spirit of Russia, I, p. 208 

• A great many people really care very little for their own compatriots, but they hate anything foreign.
  • Garrigue Masaryk, Thomas (1919), The Spirit of Russia, I, pp. 277–278 

• Unquestionably society ought to be so organised as to render self-sacrifice superfluous, for as long as men exist who are ready and willing to make sacrifices, so long will egoists take advantage of these sacrifices.
  • Garrigue Masaryk, Thomas (1919), The Spirit of Russia, II, pp. 15–16 

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