Alexander Herzen

Education at school...

Education at school...

Education at school continues what has been done at home: it crystallizes the optical illusion, consolidates it with...

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Life has taught...

Life has taught...

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Source: In

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Science, which cuts...

Science, which cuts...

Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right...

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No one is...

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...

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There is nothing...

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...

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A generation which...

A generation which...

A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of...

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I am truly...

I am truly...

I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and...

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History is the...

History is the...

History is the autobiography of a madman.

Source: 'Dr. Krupov'
-- Alexander...

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Every man who...

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...

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It is possible...

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...

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Everything in Italy...

Everything in Italy...

Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand. . . borders upon insanity and absurdity --or at least is...

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People who have...

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...

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Slavery is the...

Slavery is the...

Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better...

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We have wasted...

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...

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Never was Catholicism,...

Never was Catholicism,...

Never was Catholicism, never were the ideas of chivalry, impressed on men so deeply, so multifariously, as the...

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Human development is...

Human development is...

Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their...

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We could hardly...

We could hardly...

We could hardly believe that after so many ordeals, after all the trials of modern skepticism, there was still so much...

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Unaware of the...

Unaware of the...

Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which...

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What breadth, what...

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...

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Would it be...

Would it be...

Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically --while simulating a triumphant march forward --than...

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