Author of quotes: Alexander Herzen. Page 1

One sees clear signs of madness in the middle ages - that is unfamiliar with psychiatry. In the middle ages all crazy.

Work not pleasure, who can do without work, one not working all others working in the countryside without any benefit, work all day, to eat a piece of stale bread, and eat bread to tomorrow to work in the firm belief that all the time to develop them.

The azure of the sky, the clearest brother of the sun, the fertility of the land, let me, despicable worm of the dirt, behind beskrivning of your soles, to throw cold water on thy forehead of light, but rejoice in the ocean that the water has the good fortune to refresh sacred skin covering the white bone of your skull.

When I was quite sure that the bureaucracy (I, of course XIII, class ascending dare not) have specific brain damage, I am sick of all these coffee fables, filled with ridicule officials. To laugh at the sick shows the cruelty of the heart. The impact of the epidemic so strongly that I happened to observe its effect on the organization more strong and healthy, and then I saw the full force of it. Some restless feeling akin to remorse, possessed of newly acquired healthy subjects; they became noticeably painful to be healthy, they so suffered longing for the madness that was sluchalis the mental capacity of different alcoholic drinks, and I noticed that with proper and constant use of them they really have time to support yourself in an artificial state of insanity, which gradually became natural.

A daughter of his, despite the fact that she was not more than eighteen or nineteen years old, was severely affected by excess of flesh, so that most resembled the image and likeness of pancakes than God.

There, standing in front of that sleeping fool, I was overwhelmed with the thought that has haunted me my whole life. Why the people around him think they are better than him why you feel entitled to despise, to drive the creature quiet. good, no one has ever done harm? And a mysterious voice whispered: "Because all the others - fools only in his own way, and angry that Lev stupid in their own way, and not by them."

- We are not calculating the Germans.
- Did one of us the idea that he had little money, for example, when he wanted to drink the finest wine?

The agitation of thought is a kind of education.

Army easier to manage than a troupe of actors.

Believe me, as a poet everywhere makes your personality, and rather than he himself, the more open, the higher its lyricism, the more it shakes your heart; the same with the actor: what he's not sympathetic, that he did not Express or expressed scientifically, it's cold.

What man would not have remembered, he always starts with the fact that I could remember himself.

The inability to live in the present and appreciate the future, to surrender to him is one of moral epidemics, the most developed in our time.

To live idly by, of course, is safer; but I believe that the omission ought to have a vocation and activities. Not everyone who wants to, can do nothing.

... I am a man of Russian life and has learned to think, not by the Duma lived.