We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy itself, to be a child. If we merely look …

- Alexander Herzen

What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within wh…

- Alexander Herzen

The liberty of the individual is the greatest thing of all, it is on this and this alone that the true will of the people can develop.

- Alexander Herzen

People who have realized that this is a dream imagine that it is easy to wake up, and are angry with those who continue sleeping, not considering tha…

- Alexander Herzen

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

- Alexander Herzen

Science even more than the Gospel teaches us humility. She cannot look down on anything, she does not know what superiority means, she despises nothi…

- Alexander Herzen

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

- Alexander Herzen

The world will not know liberty until all that is religious and political is transformed into something simple and human and made susceptible to crit…

- Alexander Herzen

It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.

- Alexander Herzen