So is man’s heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.
JULES VERNEWhat darkness is to you is light is to me.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.
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It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover.
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The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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In presence of Nature’s grand convulsions man is powerless.
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What you do for money you do badly.
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On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it.
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He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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I wanted to see what no one had yet observed, even if I had to pay for this curiosity with my life.
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I say, you do have a heart!” “Sometimes,” he replied, “when I have the time.
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I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable.
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Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It’s better that way.
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