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Johan Vilhelm Snellman


 

Johan Vilhelm Snellman (May 12, 1806July 4, 1881) was an influential Fennoman philosopher and Finnish statesman, nobilitated in 1866.

Thoughts

  • Cultural strength is our only salvation.
  • Small countries should not reach for goals that they can not hold on to when international relations take an unfavourable turn.
  • Nations do not sacrifice themselves for other nations.
  • Man is born unfree and irrational. — Education, therefore, aims at both reason and freedom; Reason inasmuch that the child independently becomes involved in Tradition, and Freedom thus it grews capable to overcome prevailing circumstances.