Herzen

As we Germans would say: Da schlagen zwei Herzen in meiner Brust.

Alexander Herzen, speaking to a group of anarchists about how to overthrow the czar, reminded his listeners that it was not their job to save a dying system but to replace it: "We are not the doctors. We are the disease."

The tournament’s slogan “United by Football. Vereint im Herzen Europas” — or “United at the Heart of Europe” — is meant to convey a message of togetherness and inclusion.

The purpose of a child, the Russian thinker Alexander Herzen suggested in his 1849 dialogue-essay “Consolatio,” is to be a child — to play, to enjoy itself, to be itself.

He also gave me a beautiful edition of a book that falls into the “overlooked” category: Alexander Herzen’s “From the Other Shore.”