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Alexander Herzen
It must not...
It must not be thought that the cowardly feeling of caution and uneasy self-preservation is innate in the English...
You can no...
You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not...
If nations always...
If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another -- and always into a better set -- things might be...
Liberalism, austere in...
Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the...
Modern Western thought...
Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, just...
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...