“We live in an age when selfinterest alone seems to determine all of man’s acts—and what empathy, what emotion, what enthusiasm can ever grow out of self interest. It is pleasanter to dream of those times of dedication, sacrifice, and… — Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël Copy Share Image
“When we accustom ourselves to see animals suffer, we in time overcome the natural repugnancy of the sense of anguish, we become less accessible to pity even for our·fellow creatures, or at least we feel no longer those involuntary impressions.” — Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël Copy Share Image
“Nothing is less applicable to life than a mathematical argument. A proposition expressed in numbers is definitely false or true. In all other relations,… — Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël Copy Share Image
“Virtue . . . is nearly connected with the heart: I have called it Beneficence; not in the very limited sense that is generally… — Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël Copy Share Image
“We live in an age when selfinterest alone seems to determine all of man’s acts—and what empathy, what emotion, what enthusiasm can ever grow… — Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël Copy Share Image
“Sensibility, imagination, reason, each is subservient to the other. Every one of these faculties would be nothing but a disease, but weakness, instead of… — Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël Copy Share Image
“Enlightening, teaching, and perfecting women together with men on the national and individual level: this must be the secret for the achievement of every… — Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël Copy Share Image
“When we accustom ourselves to see animals suffer, we in time overcome the natural repugnancy of the sense of anguish, we become less accessible… — Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël Copy Share Image
“... the reciprocal obligation from man to man holds the first rank; what regards ourselves, ought to be considered relatively to the influence that… — Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël Copy Share Image
“The human mind is always making progress, but it is a progress in spirals.” — Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël Copy Share Image
“Morality and freedom are as certainly the only bases of the happiness and dignity of the human race as the system of Galileo is… — Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël Copy Share Image
“A wellborn soul is guided by only one principle in the world: always do good to others and never harm” — Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël Copy Share Image
