"It seems to me that you are solving……" — Alexander Herzen
"It seems to me that you are solving a problem which goes beyond the limits of physiology in too simple a way. Physiology has realized its problem with fortitude, breaking man down into endless actions and counteractions and reducing him to a crossing, a vortex of reflex acts. Let it now permit sociology to restore him as a whole. Sociology will wrest man from the anatomical theatre and return him to history."
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Alexander Herzen
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41 Quotes by Alexander Herzen
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Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.
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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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History is the autobiography of a madman.
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