Alphonse De Lamartine

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

“Philosopher, orator, apostle, legislator, warrior, conqueror of ideas, restorer of rational dogmas, of a cult without images, the founder of twenty terrestrial…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Utopias are often just premature truths.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

If God is thy father, human beings are thy brothers and sisters.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

But Nature too, shakes off her sleep today; By May's mild sun we see reviv'd her frame, Around my window Venus' birds…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

History teaches everything, even the future.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Soul of the universe, Sire, God, Creator, Lord, I believe in Thee, 'neath all these names: And without having need to hear…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Women have much more heart and much more imagination than men; hence, fancy often allures them.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out; political passions, never.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

All nature is the temple; earth the altar.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Ink is the transcript of thought.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Men are misers, and women prodigal, in affection.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

The reason that women are so much more sociable than men is because they act more from the heart than the intellect.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

Man hath no Heaven and Time's coast is chartless. He speeds; we pass away!

— Alphonse de Lamartine