Alexander Herzen Quotes

• History is the autobiography of a madman.

  Alexander Herzen

  Madmen, Autobiography

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

  Alexander Herzen

  Life, Live Life, Thinking

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• 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 which she is held captive!

  Alexander Herzen

  Development, Human Nature, Fence

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• El mundo no conocerá la libertad hasta que todo lo que es religioso y político se transforme en algo simple y humano y se haga susceptible de crítica y negación.

  Alexander Herzen

  Religious, Simple, Political

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• Es posible descarriar a toda una generación, dejarla ciega, volverla loca, dirigirla hacia un objetivo falso. Napoleón lo demostró.

  Alexander Herzen

  Goal, Atheism, Insane

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• The Death of the contemporary forms of social order ought to gladden rather than trouble the soul. Yet what is frightening is that the departing world leaves behind it not an heir, but a pregnant widow. Between the death of the one and the birth of the other, much water will flow by, a long night of chaos and desolation will pass.

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  Night, Order, Long

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• Science even more than the Gospel teaches us humility. She cannot look down on anything, she does not know what superiority means, she despises nothing, never lies for the sake of a pose, and conceals nothing out of coquetry. She stops before the facts as an investigator, sometimes as a physician, never as an executioner, and still less with hostility and irony.

  Alexander Herzen

  Lying, Teaching, Mean

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• Creemos que el propósito de un niño es crecer, porque crece. Pero su finalidad es jugar, divertirse, ser un niño. Si nos limitamos a mirar el final del proceso, la finalidad de la vida es la muerte...

  Alexander Herzen

  Niños, Crecer, Pensar

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• 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

  Personas, Libertad, Libertario

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• Estoy verdaderamente horrorizado por el hombre moderno. Tal ausencia de sentimientos, tal estrechez de miras, tal falta de pasión e información, tal debilidad de pensamiento.

  Alexander Herzen

  Passion, Men, Feelings

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• 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 that the whole world that environs them does not permit them to wake. Life proceeds as a series of optical illusions, artificial needs and imaginary sensations.

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  Dream, Sleep, People

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• 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.

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  Pieces, Stubborn, World

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• 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 political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will.

  Alexander Herzen

  Organization, Political, Atheism

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• Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.

  Alexander Herzen

  Science, Cutting, Way

  1855 Notebook entry, collected in Byloe i dumy (My Past and Thoughts), vol.3 (published 1861-7, translated by Constance Garnett,1924).

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• To build a city where it is impossible to build a city is madness in itself, but to build there one of the most elegant and grandest of cities is the madness of genius.

  Alexander Herzen

  Cities, Venice, Genius

  "The lost city of Venice" by Josh McHugh, www.wired.com. August 1, 2003.

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• Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it.

  Alexander Herzen

  Government, Political, Submission

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• I have served one idea, marched under one banner - war against all imposed authority - against every kind of deprivation of freedom, in the name of the absolute independence of the individual.

  Alexander Herzen

  War, Names, Ideas

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• One must open men's eyes, not tear them out.

  Alexander Herzen

  Eye, Men, Tears

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• This socialism will develop in all its phases until it reaches its own extremes and absurdities. Then once again a cry of denial will break from the titanic chest of the revolutionary minority and again a mortal struggle will begin, in which socialism will play the role of contemporary conservatism and will be overwhelmed in the subsequent revolution, as yet unknown to us.

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  Struggle, Play, Roles

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• The people is always expressive of the truth. The life of a people cannot be a lie.

  Alexander Herzen

  Freedom, Lying, People

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• False gods must be repudiated, but that is not all: The reasons for their existence must be sought beneath their masks.

  Alexander Herzen

  Reason, Mask, Existence

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• I believe in nothing here, except a handful of people, a few ideas, and the fact that one cannot arrest movement.

  Alexander Herzen

  Creer, Ideas, Gente

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• Una generación que ha pasado por la tienda ha absorbido normas y ambiciones que no son las de la amplitud, y no puede alejarse de ellas. Con ellos todo se hace como si fuera para vender, y naturalmente tienen a la vista el mayor beneficio posible, la ganancia y ese fin de la materia que hará el mejor espectáculo.

  Alexander Herzen

  Business, Ambition, Views

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• History knocks at a thousand gates at every moment, and the gatekeeper is chance. We shout into the mist for this one or that one to be opened for us, but through every gate are a thousand more. We need wit and courage to make our way while our way is making us.

  Alexander Herzen

  Needs, Way, Chance

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• Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history have based their job security.

  Alexander Herzen

  Jobs, Law, Liberty

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