Varieties Society Quotes by Hippolyte Taine

There are four varieties in society — the lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.

— Hippolyte Taine

The more I study the things of the mind the more mathematical I find them. In them as in mathematics it is a question…

— Hippolyte Taine

Four varieties in society: lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.

— Hippolyte Taine

After the collection of facts, the search for causes.

— Hippolyte Taine

History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.

— Hippolyte Taine

“Not only does the State do the work badly on a domain not its own, bunglingly, at greater cost, and with less fruit than…

— Hippolyte Taine

For thirty centuries, from her sacred seat the cat looked down, and crouching at her feet, beheld the race of conquering Pharaohs kneel.

— Hippolyte Taine

We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and then the…

— Hippolyte Taine

Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their…

— Hippolyte Taine

In the stormy current of life characters are weights or floats which at one time make us glide along the bottom, and at another…

— Hippolyte Taine

Change a virtue in its circumstances find it becomes a vice; change a vice in its circumstances, and it becomes a virtue. Regard the…

— Hippolyte Taine

The search for causes must come after the collection of facts.

— Hippolyte Taine

His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what is proper.

— Hippolyte Taine

There are as many kinds of modesty as there are races. To the English woman it is a duty; to the French woman a…

— Hippolyte Taine

The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.

— Hippolyte Taine