"I detest war; it ruins conversation" — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
"I detest war; it ruins conversation"
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Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
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31 Quotes by Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
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Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a…
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As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
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They will have the World to be in Large, what a Watch is in Small; which is very regular, and…
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Let us be well assured of the Matter of Fact, before we trouble our selves with enquiring into the Cause.…
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Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.
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If I held all the thoughts of the world in my hand, I would be careful not to open it.
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It takes time to ruin a world, but time is all it takes.
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I feel nothing, apart from a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.
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It is high time for me to depart, for at my age I now begin to see things as they…
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A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the…
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A well-cultivated mind is, so to speak, made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only one…
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To despise theory is to have the excessively vain pretension to do without knowing what one does, and to speak…
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It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.
— Richard Armour
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I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know…
— Antonin Artaud
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Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds…
— Mary Astell
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My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that…
— Jane Austen
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The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which,…
— Douglas Adams
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I don't think of myself as giving interviews. I just have conversations. That gets me in trouble.
— Charles Barkley
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I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations…
— Mario Batali
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship…
— Joseph Addison
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A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction,…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
— Yogi Berra
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Love without conversation is impossible.
— Mortimer Adler
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I have very intense conversations with friends, people I really interconnect with. We talk about politics, important things. I like…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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