Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Quotes
A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry.
Bernard le Bovier de FontenelleBernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another.
Bernard le Bovier de FontenelleBernard le Bovier de Fontenelle We must always skim over pleasures. They are like marshy lands that we must travel nimbly, hardly daring to put down our feet.
Bernard le Bovier de FontenelleBernard le Bovier de Fontenelle As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
Bernard le Bovier de FontenelleBernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Since the princes take the Earth for their own, it’s fair that the philosophers reserve the sky for themselves and rule there, but they should never permit the entry of others.
Bernard le Bovier de FontenelleBernard le Bovier de Fontenelle It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the cbarm.
Bernard le Bovier de FontenelleBernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Our sun enlightens the planets that belong to him; why may not every fixed star also have planets to which they give light?
Bernard le Bovier de FontenelleBernard le Bovier de Fontenelle A true philosopher is like an elephant; he never puts the second foot down until the first one is solidly in place.
Bernard le Bovier de FontenelleBernard le Bovier de Fontenelle A philospher sees the Earth as a large planet, travelling through the heavens, covered with fools
Bernard le Bovier de FontenelleBernard le Bovier de Fontenelle I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
Bernard le Bovier de FontenelleBernard le Bovier de Fontenelle It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
Bernard le Bovier de FontenelleBernard le Bovier de Fontenelle If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.
Bernard le Bovier de FontenelleBernard le Bovier de Fontenelle People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.
Bernard le Bovier de FontenelleBernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Truth comes home to the mind so naturally, that when we learn it for the first time, it seems as though we did no more than recall it to our memory.
Bernard le Bovier de FontenelleBernard le Bovier de Fontenelle A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.
Bernard le Bovier de FontenelleBernard le Bovier de Fontenelle It is the passions that do and undo everything.
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