Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
I ought not to fear to survive my own people so long as there are men in the world; for there are… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me,… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Universal peace will be realized, not because man will become better, but because a new order of things, a new science, new… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
The faculty of doubting is rare among men. A few choice spirits carry the germs of it in them, but these do… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ...… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
We find it hard to picture to ourselves the state of mind of a man of older days who firmly believed that… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
For a man’s life would become intolerable, if he knew what was going to happen to him. He would be made aware… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere. They eradicate hypocrisy from their hearts. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
He flattered himself on being a man without any prejudices; and this pretension itself is a very great prejudice. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“No, let us not conquer the heavens. It is enough to have the power to do so. War engenders war, and victory defeat. God,… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.” — Anatole France Copy Share Image
The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“And what, above all, I blame in you is that you have not married in compliance with the law and given children to the… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It does not… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
