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Education at school continues ...

Education at school continues what has been done at home: it crystallizes the optical illusion, consolidates it with book learning, theoretically legitimizes the traditional trash and trains the children to know without understanding and to accept denominations for definitions. Astray in his conceptions, entangled in words, man loses the flair for truth, the taste for nature. What a powerful intellect must you possess, to be suspicious of this moral carbon dioxide and with your head swimming already, to hurl yourself o

Alexander Herzen 70 quotes

This socialism will develop in...

This socialism will develop in all its phases until it reaches its own extremes and absurdities. Then once again a cry of denial will break from the titanic chest of the revolutionary minority and again a mortal struggle will begin, in which socialism will play the role of contemporary conservatism and will be overwhelmed in the subsequent revolution, as yet unknown to us.

Alexander Herzen 70 quotes

All religions have based moral...

All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former -- of the corruption of the will.

Alexander Herzen 70 quotes

We have wasted our spirit in t...

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 70 quotes

A generation which has passed ...

A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.

Alexander Herzen 70 quotes

The people is always expressiv...

The people is always expressive of the truth. The life of a people cannot be a lie.

Alexander Herzen 70 quotes

Every man who has lived for fi...

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 to the new scenery of another act: but suddenly the names and faces of a time long dead appear more and more often on his way, calling up series of shades and pictures kept somewhere, 'just in case,' in the endless catacombs of the memory, making him smile or sigh, and sometimes almost weep.

Alexander Herzen 70 quotes

All religions have based moral...

All religions have based morality on obedience, that is to say, on voluntary slavery. That is why they have always been more pernicious than any political organization. For the latter makes use of violence, the former - of the corruption of the will.

Alexander Herzen 70 quotes

Laws to suppress tend to stren...

Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history have based their job security.

Alexander Herzen 70 quotes

The liberty of the individual ...

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 70 quotes

[T]he departing world leaves b...

[T]he departing world leaves behind... not an heir, but a pregnant widow.

Alexander Herzen 70 quotes

Human development is a form of...

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 price.

Alexander Herzen 70 quotes

Science even more than the Gos...

Science even more than the Gospel teaches us humility. She cannot look down on anything, she does not know what superiority means, she despises nothing, never lies for the sake of a pose, and conceals nothing out of coquetry. She stops before the facts as an investigator, sometimes as a physician, never as an executioner, and still less with hostility and irony.

Alexander Herzen 70 quotes

Science, which cuts its way th...

Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it.

Alexander Herzen 70 quotes

Life has taught me to think, b...

Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live.

Alexander Herzen 70 quotes

Never was Catholicism, never w...

Never was Catholicism, never were the ideas of chivalry, impressed on men so deeply, so multifariously, as the bourgeois ideas.

Alexander Herzen 70 quotes

It must not be thought that th...

It must not be thought that the cowardly feeling of caution and uneasy self-preservation is innate in the English character. It is the consequence of a corpulence derived from wealth and of the training of all thoughts and passions for acquisitiveness.

Alexander Herzen 70 quotes

False gods must be repudiated,...

False gods must be repudiated, but that is not all: The reasons for their existence must be sought beneath their masks.

Alexander Herzen 70 quotes

Unaware of the absurdity of it...

Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development.

Alexander Herzen 70 quotes

Strong drink stupefies a man a...

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 of this state is increased by the low level of civilization and the narrow empty life to which these men are confined.

Alexander Herzen 70 quotes

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