Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
ANATOLE FRANCEMan is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
More Anatole France Quotes
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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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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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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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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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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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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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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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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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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