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Art, and the summer lightning of individual happiness: these are the only real goods we have.

Alexander Herzen

Russia's future will be a great danger for Europe and a great misfortune for Russia if there is no emancipation of the individual. One more century of present despotism will destroy all the good qualities of the Russian people.

Alexander Herzen

Communism is a Russian autocracy turned upside down.

Alexander Herzen

The terrible consequences of human speech in Russia necessarily give it an added power.

Alexander Herzen

Science is strength; it shows the relations of things, their laws and interactions.

Alexander Herzen

Science is a table abundantly laid for every man whose hunger is great enough, whose craving for spiritual nourishment has grown sufficiently insistent.

Alexander Herzen

Superficial dilettantism and the narrow specialization of the scientists ex officio are the two banks of science which prevent the fertilizing waters of this Nile from overflowing.

Alexander Herzen

Science, in the best sense of the word, shall come to be accessible to the people, and when it does it shall claim a voice in all practical matters.

Alexander Herzen

Alexander Herzen

Alexander Herzen

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Born: April 6, 1812

Died: January 21, 1870 (aged 57)

Bio: Aleksandr Ivanovich Herzen was a Russian writer and thinker known as the "father of Russian socialism" and one of the main fathers of agrarian populism.

Known for:

My Past and Thoughts (1861)
Who is to Blame? (1846)
Childhood, youth & exile
Kto vinovatʹ?
Byloe I Dumy

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