Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
ANATOLE FRANCEMan is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
More Anatole France Quotes
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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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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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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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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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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All ought to be common among friends.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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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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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
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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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