To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
ANATOLE FRANCEBut I deny that He created the world; at the most He organised but an inferior part of it, and all that He touched bears the mark of His rough and unforeseeing touch.
More Anatole France Quotes
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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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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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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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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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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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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that is left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.
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