Voluntary Slavery 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 information, such…
• Science even more than the Gospel teaches us humility. She cannot look down on anything, she does not know what superiority means,…
• Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and…
• Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.
• What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the…
• We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the…
• 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 movement.
• 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 to play,…
• Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some…
• If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another -- and always into a better set -- things might…

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