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 FRANCETo know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
More Anatole France Quotes
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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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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