Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Quotes
I hate war, for it spoils conversation.
Bernard le Bovier de FontenelleBernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die as usual.
Bernard le Bovier de FontenelleBernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Modesty in women has two special advantages,–it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.
Bernard le Bovier de FontenelleBernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all. Our world is terrifying in its insignificance.
Bernard le Bovier de FontenelleBernard le Bovier de Fontenelle I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
Bernard le Bovier de FontenelleBernard le Bovier de Fontenelle If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.
Bernard le Bovier de FontenelleBernard le Bovier de Fontenelle I detest war; it ruins conversation
Bernard le Bovier de FontenelleBernard le Bovier de Fontenelle The Art of Flying is but newly invented, twill improve by degrees, and in time grow perfect; then we may fly as far as the Moon.
Bernard le Bovier de FontenelleBernard le Bovier de Fontenelle It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.
Bernard le Bovier de FontenelleBernard le Bovier de Fontenelle There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
Bernard le Bovier de FontenelleBernard le Bovier de Fontenelle To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak without knowing what one says.
Bernard le Bovier de FontenelleBernard le Bovier de Fontenelle It is high time for me to depart, for at my age I now begin to see things as they really are.
Bernard le Bovier de FontenelleBernard le Bovier de Fontenelle An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
Bernard le Bovier de FontenelleBernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Les vrais philosophes sont comme les e le phants, qui en marchant ne posent jamais le second pied a’ terre que le premier ne soit bien affermi. True philosophers are like elephants, who when walking never placetheir second footontheground untilthefirst is steady.
Bernard le Bovier de FontenelleBernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!
Bernard le Bovier de FontenelleBernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.
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