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 FRANCEThe whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
More Anatole France Quotes
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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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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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We should adopt his principles and govern men as they are and not as what we’d like them to be.
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He would not stoop even to pick up the old manuscript I am going to seek with so much trouble and fatigue. And in truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.
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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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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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