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"19 Alexander Herzen Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 6 April 1812. Died: 21 January 1870 | Writer | Thinker |

History is the autobiography of a madman.

History Autobiography Madman
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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

Nothing The world More stubborn A corpse
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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Life Taught me Thinking Has not
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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.

I believe Nothing here Handful 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.

False gods Repudiated The reason Their existence
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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, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development.

Unaware The absurdity We introduce Petty household
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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 others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others.

Slavery First step Civilization Develop
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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 to the end of the process, the purpose of life is death

We think Purpose Child Grow up
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It must not be thought that the cowardly feeling of caution and uneasy self-preservation is innate in the English character. It is the consequence of a corpulence derived from wealth and of the training of all thoughts and passions for acquisitiveness.

Be thought Cowardly feeling Self preservation Innate
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The people is always expressive of the truth. The life of a people cannot be a lie

The people Always expressive The truth Life
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I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.

Truly horrified Feeling Narrowness Outlook
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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.

Science Which cut Daily life Wealth
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Compassionate love may be strong. It sobs, it burns, then it wipes away its tears – and it does nothing.

Compassionate love Be strong Its tears
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You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.

Bridle passion With logic Justify Law courts
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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.

The liberty Individual Greatest thing Can develop
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We could hardly believe that after so many ordeals, after all the trials of modern skepticism, there was still so much left in our souls to destroy.

Hardly believe Many ordeals Trials Modern skepticism
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I believe what I write to be the truth,every man who is not indifferent to the truth has a weakness for spreading it about.

Believe The truth Every man Indifferent
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It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal.

Possible To lead astray Entire generation To strike
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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.

All religion Based morality On obedience Voluntary slavery
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Alexander Herzen Quotes & Sayings