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 Copy Share Image
We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
The Death of the contemporary forms of social order ought to gladden rather than trouble the soul. Yet what is frightening is that the… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
It seems to me that you are solving a problem which goes beyond the limits of physiology in too simple a way. Physiology has… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, justas our body will pass… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
Science even more than the Gospel teaches us humility. She cannot look down on anything, she does not know what superiority means, she despises… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
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. — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
Strong drink stupefies a man and makes it possible for him to forget; it gives him an artificial cheeriness, an artificial excitement; and the… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
Strong drink stupefies a man and makes it possible for him to forget; it gives him an artificial cheeriness, an artificial excitement; and the… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
