Alexander Herzen Quotes


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.


Citations

Herzen, Alexander. Selected Philosophical Works. Translated by L. Navrozov, Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1956, p. 112.

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Alexander Herzen
Alexander Herzen
  • Born: April 6, 1812
  • Died: January 22, 1870
  • Nationality: Russian
  • Profession: Journalist

Alexander Ivanovich Herzen was a Russian writer and thinker known as the "father of Russian socialism" and one of the main fathers of agrarian populism (being an ideological ancestor of the Narodniki, Socialist-Revolutionaries, Trudoviks and the agrarian American Populist Party). With his writings, many composed while exiled in London, he attempted to influence the situation in Russia, contributing to a political climate that led to the emancipation of the serfs in 1861. He published the important social novel Who is to Blame? (1845–46). His autobiography, My Past and Thoughts (written 1852–1870), is often considered one of the best examples of that genre in Russian literature.