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Men Quotes by Alexander Herzen
- I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought.
- If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another -- and always into a better set -- things might be easier, but…
- Strong drink stupefies a man and makes it possible for him to forget; it gives him an artificial cheeriness, an artificial excitement; and the pleasure…
- Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, just as our body will pass…
- 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.
- 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…
- Every man who has lived for fifty years has buried a whole world or even two; he has grown used to its disappearance and accustomed…
- Modern Western thought will pass into history and be incorporated in it, will have its influence and its place, justas our body will pass into…
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