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 FRANCEIt is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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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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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All ought to be common among friends.
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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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Our passions are ourselves.
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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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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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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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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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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 chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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