"To build a city where it is impossible……" — Alexander Herzen
"To build a city where it is impossible to build a city is madness in itself, but to build there one of the most elegant and grandest of cities is the madness of genius."
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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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If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another -- and always into a better set --…
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