Science even more than the Gospel teaches us humility. She cannot look down on anything, she does not know what superiority means,… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
I believe in nothing here, except a handful of people, a few ideas, and the fact that one cannot arrest movement. — 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
