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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 17 quotes by Alexander Herzen Aleksandr Ivanovich Herzen (Russian: Алекса ндр Ива нович Ге рцен; April 6 [O.S. 25 March] 1812 – January 21 [O.S. 9 January] 1870) was a Russian writer and thinker known as the "father of Russian socialism" and one of the main fathers of agrarian populism (being an ideological ancestor of the Narodniki, Socialist-Revolutionaries, Trudoviks and the agrarian American Populist Party). He is held responsible for creating a... Read full biography of Alexander Herzen → 1 2 Ctrl → Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live. 0 Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood. 0 All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any... → 0 I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of... → 0 Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant... → 0 You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas. 0 Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations... → 0 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... → 0 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. 0 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. 0 Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for... → 0 No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying. 0 We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation. 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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