"Life has taught me to think, but thinking……" — Alexander Herzen

"Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live."

— 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…
Science even more than the Gospel teaches us humility. She cannot look down on anything, she does not know what…
Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to…
What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over…
We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither…
Compassionate love may be strong. It sobs, it burns, then it wipes away its tears – and it does nothing.
I believe in nothing here, except a handful of people, a few ideas, and the fact that one cannot arrest…
History is the autobiography of a madman.
We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is…
Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better…
If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another -- and always into a better set --…
Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a…

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
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