"All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy." — Ernest Dimnet
"All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy."
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Ernest Dimnet
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22 Quotes by Ernest Dimnet
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Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
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Ideas are the roots of creation.
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The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
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Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have…
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Ideas are the root of creation.
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Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when…
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Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.
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Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.
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Many men absorbed in business show such a rare quality of culture that we are surprised at it. The reason…
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A school is a place through which you have to pass before entering life, but where the teaching proper does…
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Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name
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The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the…
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