The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
ANATOLE FRANCEIt is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
More Anatole France Quotes
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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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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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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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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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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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To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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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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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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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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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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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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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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But 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.
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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.
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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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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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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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