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Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk Quotes

1850–1937 Czech Republic

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.

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Theology is to-day recognised to be the instrument of myth, philosophy to be the instrument of science.

A great many people really care very little for their own compatriots, but they hate anything foreign.

Jesus, not Cæsar, I repeat,—this is the meaning of our history and democracy.

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.

[I]t redounds to the honour of Russian literature that the leading spirits of that literature were the most efficient adversaries of slavery.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.