We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
ANATOLE FRANCEIt is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
More Anatole France Quotes
-
-
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 FRANCE -
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
ANATOLE FRANCE -
All ought to be common among friends.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
ANATOLE FRANCE -
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
ANATOLE FRANCE -
Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
ANATOLE FRANCE







