"History is the autobiography of a madman." — Alexander Herzen
"History is the autobiography of a madman."
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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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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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Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a…
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More Autobiography Quotes
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Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is…
— Kate Atkinson
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
— John Berger
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'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.
— Mary J. Blige
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Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data…
— Nicholas Delbanco
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Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of…
— Marilyn Ferguson
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Mom - the person most likely to write an autobiography and never mention herself.
— Robert Breault
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I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so…
— Philip Roth
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Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price.
— Nikola Tesla
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But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when…
— Nikola Tesla
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When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.
— Nikola Tesla
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A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results.
— Nikola Tesla
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