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Alexander Herzen
Education at school...
Education at school continues what has been done at home: it crystallizes the optical illusion, consolidates it with...
Life has taught...
Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.
Source: In
Science, which cuts...
Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right...
No one is...
No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is...
There is nothing...
There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot...
A generation which...
A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of...
I am truly...
I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and...
History is the...
History is the autobiography of a madman.
Source: 'Dr. Krupov'
-- Alexander...
Every man who...
Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance...
It is possible...
It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a...
Everything in Italy...
Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand. . . borders upon insanity and absurdity --or at least is...
People who have...
People who have realized that this is a dream imagine that it is easy to wake up, and are angry with those who...
Slavery is the...
Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better...
We have wasted...
We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of...
Never was Catholicism,...
Never was Catholicism, never were the ideas of chivalry, impressed on men so deeply, so multifariously, as the...
Human development is...
Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their...
We could hardly...
We could hardly believe that after so many ordeals, after all the trials of modern skepticism, there was still so much...
Unaware of the...
Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which...
What breadth, what...
What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the...
Would it be...
Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically --while simulating a triumphant march forward --than...