"Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and……" — Alexander Herzen
"Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood."
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Alexander Herzen
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41 Quotes by Alexander Herzen
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I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and…
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Science even more than the Gospel teaches us humility. She cannot look down on anything, she does not know what…
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Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to…
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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.
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What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over…
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We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither…
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Compassionate love may be strong. It sobs, it burns, then it wipes away its tears – and it does nothing.
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I believe in nothing here, except a handful of people, a few ideas, and the fact that one cannot arrest…
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History is the autobiography of a madman.
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We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is…
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Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better…
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If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another -- and always into a better set --…
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An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of…
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This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of…
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A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of…
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My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out…
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At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
— Albert Camus
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Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe…
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It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we…
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Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things because to demystify supposedly 'holy text dictated by god' and…
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The vested interests-if we explain the situation by their influence-can only get the public to act as they wish by…
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When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and…
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Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination,…
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