"The people is always expressive of the truth.……" — Alexander Herzen
"The people is always expressive of the truth. The life of a people cannot be a lie."
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Alexander Herzen
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41 Quotes by Alexander Herzen
Alexander Herzen has 41 quotes on this site.
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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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More Expressive Quotes
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I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.
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I'm not a man of many words, I'm not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music.
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For me, the promised land, always seeming just beyond my reach, is the poetic masterpiece, that perfect union of words…
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The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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It is well-known that those who have charge of young infants, that it is difficult to feel sure when certain…
— Charles Darwin
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Giving his lecture for the third time freed Dr. Lionel Gift from paying much attention to it. He had a…
— Jane Smiley
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C has all the expressive power of two dixie cups and a string.
— Jamie Zawinski
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Apropos, is not the Scotch phrase 'Auld Lang Syne' exceedingly expressive? I shall give you the verses on the other…
— Robert Burns
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He has the vocal modulation of a railway-station announcer, the expressive power of a fence-post and the charisma of a…
— Fintan O'Toole
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American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones.
— Simon Pegg
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I'm a person of the arts. I love the arts very, very, very much. And ah, I'm a musician, I'm…
— Michael Jackson
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My films are expressive of a culture that has had the possibility of attaining material fulfillment while at the same…
— John Cassavetes
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