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History is the autobiography of a madman.
— Alexander Herzen
We could hardly believe that after so many ordeals, after all the trials of modern skepticism, there was still so much left in our souls to destroy.
— Alexander Herzen
One must open men's eyes, not tear them out.
— Alexander Herzen
In those quiet places where my heart once spoke to yours ... I breathed eternal summer.
— Albert Camus
You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas.
— Alexander Herzen
[T]he departing world leaves behind ... not an heir, but a pregnant widow.
— Alexander Herzen
The people is always expressive of the truth. The life of a people cannot be a lie.
— Alexander Herzen
We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.
— Alexander Herzen
Anecdotal data is not incidental to theory development at all, but an essential part of it
— Henry Mintzberg
Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood.
— Alexander Herzen
The liberty of the individual is the greatest thing of all, it is on this and this alone that the true will of the people can develop.
— Alexander Herzen
You bastard, he thought, almost affectionately, watching the minuscule protoplasm fluttering on the slide. You dirty little bastard.
— Richard Matheson
Never was Catholicism, never were the ideas of chivalry, impressed on men so deeply, so multifariously, as the bourgeois ideas.
— Alexander Herzen
While local matters are happening around you, let your mind sail to the ocean of universal matters.
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.
— Alexander Herzen
I believe in nothing here, except a handful of people, a few ideas, and the fact that one cannot arrest movement.
— Alexander Herzen
If Jesus was hung, would we pray to a rope?
— Gordon Downie
Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.
— Alexander Herzen
False gods must be repudiated, but that is not all: The reasons for their existence must be sought beneath their masks.
— Alexander Herzen
No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.
— Alexander Herzen
It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.
— Alexander Herzen
I am very passionate about non-toxic food and beauty and home.
— Gwyneth Paltrow
Nothing so consumes a person as meaningless exertion
— Haruki Murakami