Advertisements
Alexander Herzen Quotes
Advertisements






Advertisements
Text Quotes
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live (Alexander Herzen Quotes)
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 (Alexander Herzen Quotes)
History is the autobiography of a madman (Alexander Herzen Quotes)
It seems to me that you are solving a problem which goes beyond the limits of physiology in too simple a way. Physiology has realized its problem with fortitude, breaking man down into endless actions and counteractions and reducing him to a crossing, a vortex of reflex acts. Let it now permit sociology to restore him as a whole. Sociology will wrest man from the anatomical theatre and return him to history (Alexander Herzen Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 (Alexander Herzen Quotes)