The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant. Votes: 3
To love beauty is to see light. Votes: 0
Taste is the common sense of genius. Votes: 0
Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. Votes: 0
Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans do not abandon the people. Votes: 0
The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness. Votes: 0
When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age. Votes: 0
One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams. Votes: 0
Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being. Votes: 0
Liberation is not deliverance. Votes: 0
Emotion is always new. Votes: 0
Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. Votes: 0
Go to sleep in peace. God is awake. Votes: 0
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask. Votes: 0
where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision? Votes: 0
Habit is the nursery of errors. Votes: 0
Press on! A better fate awaits thee. Votes: 0
But I have been exposed, I am pursued - by myself! That is a pursuit that does not readily let go. Votes: 0
...the cold and bitter scorn of the passers-by penetrated her very flesh and soul like a north wind. Votes: 0
Death does not concern me. He who takes his first step uses perhaps his last shoes. (Halmalo) Votes: 0
Love is the only future God offers. Votes: 0
Toleration is the best religion. Votes: 0
Stupidity talks, vanity acts. Votes: 0
Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them. Votes: 0
Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen. Votes: 0
If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring. Votes: 0
Be happy without picking flaws. Votes: 0
Genius: the superhuman in man. Votes: 0
She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very white. Votes: 0
The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable. Votes: 0
Labor is life; thought is light. Votes: 0
Here we stop. On the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, a finger to his lips. Votes: 0
The ox suffers, the cart complains. Votes: 0
One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will. Votes: 0
Wisdom is a sacred communion. Votes: 0
To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it. Votes: 0
Despotism is a long crime. Votes: 0
It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like. Votes: 0
I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses. Votes: 0
A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface! Votes: 0
A joyous little creature, so beautiful, It was as if a gate of Heaven opened as she came in... Votes: 0
A library implies an act of faith. Votes: 0
A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off. Votes: 0
A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking. Votes: 0
A poet is a world enclosed in a man. Votes: 0
A sewer is a cynic. It tells All. Votes: 0
A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea. Votes: 0
A wedding is not house-keeping. Votes: 0
Algebra applies to the clouds. Votes: 0
Another story must begin! Votes: 0
Art needs no spur beyond itself. Votes: 0
Conscience is God present in man. Votes: 0
Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less. Votes: 0
Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind. Votes: 0
Enthusiasm is the fever of reason. Votes: 0
Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party. Votes: 0
Foppery is the egotism of clothes. Votes: 0
For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind. Votes: 0
Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves. Votes: 0
God was bored by him. Votes: 0
Happiness wishes everybody happy. Votes: 0
He does not weep who does not see. Votes: 0
He who despairs is wrong. Votes: 0
His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog. Votes: 0
I see black light (his last words) Votes: 0
I think, therefore I doubt. Votes: 0
I was dying when you came. Votes: 0
I will be Chateaubriand or nothing. Votes: 0
I'm religiously opposed to religion. Votes: 0
Joy is the reflex of terror. Votes: 0
Love is a fault; so be it. Votes: 0
Loving is half of believing. Votes: 0
Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use. Votes: 0
Morality is truth in full bloom. Votes: 0
Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies. Votes: 0
No religion but blasphemes a little. Votes: 0
Oh! Everything I loved! Votes: 0
Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it. Votes: 0
Progress is the life-style of man. Votes: 0
Progress is the stride of God. Votes: 0
Reality in strong doses frightens. Votes: 0
Right is right only when entire. Votes: 0
Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit. Votes: 0
Spira, spera. (breathe, hope) Votes: 0
That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity. Votes: 0
That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven. Votes: 0
The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment's silence, "Perhaps more so. Votes: 0
The malicious have a dark happiness. Votes: 0
The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages. Votes: 0
The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him. Votes: 0
There are no rules for felicity. Votes: 0
There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance. Votes: 0
There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing. Votes: 0
There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it. Votes: 0
These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps Votes: 0
Those who do not weep, do not see. Votes: 0
Those who live are those who fight. Votes: 0
To have lied is to have suffered. Votes: 0
To learn to read is to light a fire. Votes: 0
To love is the half of to believe. Votes: 0
To rise at six, to dine at ten, To sup at six, to sleep at ten, Makes a man live for ten times ten. Votes: 0
To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time. Votes: 0
We are not loved by our friends for what we are; rather, we are loved in spite of what we are. Votes: 0
We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so. Votes: 0
When I speak to you about myself, I am speaking to you about yourself. How is it you don't see that? Votes: 0
When liberty returns, I will return. Votes: 0
Wisdom is the health of the soul. Votes: 0
Women are more credulous than men. Votes: 0
Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it. Votes: 0