Autobiography Quote by Alexander Herzen Download Open image “History is the autobiography of a madman.” — Alexander Herzen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Autobiography History Madmen
And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor. So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share
“History will remember him as a savage, but that's because we write the histories.” — A.H. Septimius Copy Share Image
History is the memory of time, the life of the dead and the happiness of the living. — John Smith Copy Share Image
History is that form which his imagination seeks comprehension of the living existence of the world in relation to his own life, which he… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
The Death of the contemporary forms of social order ought to gladden rather than trouble the soul. Yet what is frightening is that the… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
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… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share
Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, justas our body will pass… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
Science even more than the Gospel teaches us humility. She cannot look down on anything, she does not know what superiority means, she despises… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
I believe what I write to be the truth...every man who is not indifferent to the truth has a weakness for spreading it about. — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
Strong drink stupefies a man and makes it possible for him to forget; it gives him an artificial cheeriness, an artificial excitement; and the… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
Strong drink stupefies a man and makes it possible for him to forget; it gives him an artificial cheeriness, an artificial excitement; and the… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
I think anything that anyone writes thats any good is going to have a lot of autobiography. — Stephen Adly Guirgis Copy Share Image
“I am not and autobiographical writer--one can't be without a solid and explicable self--and read all autobiographical writers with the same curiosity. What kind… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
“Someday, I want to write an unauthorized autobiography of myself.” — David McMullen-Sullivan Copy Share Image
“As well as writing, 2004 saw my first attempt at wine making: the elixir of life. Unfortunately, my effort tasted more like the elixir… — Craig Briggs Copy Share Image
Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't really think of my essays as being about myself. I know it sounds insane, but I just don't think of them as… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
The way I would live my life is: never do something in real life that I would not want to write about in my… — Siddharth Katragadda Copy Share Image
biography cannot be separated from autobiography: that is, the life written about is inextricably entangled with the life of the biographer. — Linda Simon Copy Share Image
I think I'm like most novelists in that my books have gotten farther and farther away from autobiography the longer I've been writing them. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
If you wish to understand me at all (and to write an autobiography is only to open a window into one's heart) you must… — Nellie Melba Copy Share Image
