The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies. — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share Image
There are four varieties in society — the lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest. — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Four varieties in society: lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest. — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share Image
History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology. — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share Image
“Not only does the State do the work badly on a domain not its own, bunglingly, at greater cost, and with less fruit than spontaneous organizations, but, again, through the legal monopoly which it deems its prerogative, or through the overwhelming competition which it exercises, it kills or paralyzes these natural organizations or prevents their birth; and hence so many… — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
