1699: Ahatanhel Krymsky: Secular Scholarship, Ukrainian Identity, and Humanist Thought
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2026/06/08
“A pupil, a son, an educatee, and so on, must have certain rights that no teacher, father, or educator may dare to violate.”
“Among us, people do not want to understand such an obvious axiom: that a child, or a boy, is a fully rights-bearing human being who wants proofs, not blind obedience…”
“But then, I say, I understood that I knew only the very surface of scholarship, that I was only half-educated, that I knew nothing.”
“I understood that I had to be a Ukrainophile — and I understood this entirely consciously.”
“At that time I was calm, impartial, had managed to forget the Galician and Kyiv ‘squabbles,’ and could calmly judge the idea by the idea itself, not by its adherents.”
“Drahomanov once again stirred up my patriotism, and now I will never turn away from the Ukrainian path; a foreigner by birth, I will forever be a Ukrainian.”
“I do not know about other people, but from the time I began to engage in scholarship, I became more balanced and feel that my strength has increased.”
“I wish to be a scholar, but to wish is not to become. Ars longa, vita brevis — art is long, life is short — and I have not even managed to use that short life as I should.”
“The literature of every living language is not written only for a small circle of learned people; it must serve the needs of the entire people who speak that language.”
“Whoever seeks flawless friends has none, because our friends are allotted to us by chance, not by our choice.”
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