Why lower oneself to taking pride from being American or British, when you can boast of being man!
JULES VERNEHe must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit.
More Jules Verne Quotes
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We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
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The earth does not need new continents, but new men.
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In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.
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What pen can describe this scene of marvellous horror; what pencil can portray it?
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Liberty is worth paying for.
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It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning, and let anything better come as a surprise.
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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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If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
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Anything you can imagine you can make real.
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We see that science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
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The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the ‘Living Infinite.
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
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All that is impossible remains to be accomplished.
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Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
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Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
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The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
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All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
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I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
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Anything a man can imagine, another can create.
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Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.
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Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by step to the truth.
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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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Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!
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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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Powder is but a thing of yesterday, and war is as old as the human race-unhappily.
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