“Nothing is less applicable to life than a mathematical argument. A proposition expressed in numbers is definitely false or true. In all… — Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël Life Copy Share Image
“Virtue . . . is nearly connected with the heart: I have called it Beneficence; not in the very limited sense that… — Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël Character 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… — Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël Dreams 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,… — Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël Character 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… — Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël Education 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… — Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël Animals Copy Share Image
“... the reciprocal obligation from man to man holds the first rank; what regards ourselves, ought to be considered relatively to the… — Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël Power Copy Share Image
“The human mind is always making progress, but it is a progress in spirals.” — Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël Growth 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… — Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël Character 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 Integrity Copy Share Image
