There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.
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
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
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
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.
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
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…
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
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…
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
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.
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
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…
Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live. - Alexander Herzen
Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.
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
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…
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
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…
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