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 FRANCEHe 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.
More Anatole France Quotes
-
-
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
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.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
It is not customary to love what one has
ANATOLE FRANCE -
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
ANATOLE FRANCE -
We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
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.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
ANATOLE FRANCE -
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
ANATOLE FRANCE