"If nations always moved from one set of……" — Alexander Herzen
"If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another -- and always into a better set -- things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean -- there is nothing there. It will be what men and circumstances make it."
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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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Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a…
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I always cry at weddings; they're beautiful, and I'm always moved.
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Rather than deal with problems in relationships, I've always moved on. That's why I'm one of the very few survivors…
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I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea.
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I've always moved by my heart. I've moved by the spirit of what I feel was right for me next.…
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I test my bath before I sit, And I'm always moved to wonderment That what chills the finger not a…
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It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what…
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I still have a Gypsy sense of adventure. I don't think I have slept in the same bed for more…
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We have always moved with this approach of sharing and educating people with what they can unlock with 3D printing.
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I found that through my life, living in the city of Toronto, I look above the Pizza Pizza sign, and…
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My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forward, and when they got…
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