Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.
ANATOLE FRANCEPeople who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
More Anatole France Quotes
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
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Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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