Konstantin Batyushkov Quotes

“I only wake to fall asleepAnd sleep, to awake without end.”

“All the universe is full of the lives of perfect creatures.”

“From the moment of using rocket devices, a great new era will begin in astronomy: the epoch of the more intensive study of the firmament.”

“The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever.”

“Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System.”

“Mankind will not forever remain on Earth but, in the pursuit of light and space, will first timidly emerge from the bounds of the atmosphere and then advance until he has conquered the whole of circumsolar space.”

“I do not remember how it got into my head to make the first calculations related to rocket. It seems to me the first seeds were planted by famous fantaseour, J. Verne.”

“Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot live in a cradle forever.”

“The world is desperately imperfect. Even if a quarter of the working people were engrossed in new thoughts and inventions and lived off the others, humanity would still gain tremendously thanks to the constant stream of inventions and intellectual work emerging from this horde of people striving upward.”

“Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds him.”