"The happiness of most people is not ruined……" — Ernest Dimnet
"The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things."
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22 Quotes by Ernest Dimnet
Ernest Dimnet has 22 quotes on this site.
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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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More Catastrophe Quotes
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Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
— Isaac Asimov
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If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we…
— Lord Acton
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The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.
— Theodor Adorno
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Certainly I'm still mining my experiences as a journalist. I think it's no coincidence that all three of my novels…
— Geraldine Brooks
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Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all…
— Tony Campolo
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There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them.…
— Noam Chomsky
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Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.
— Noam Chomsky
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The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe…
— Leonard Cohen
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As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to…
— Eric Alterman
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Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?
— Jean Anouilh
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The Author of nature has not given laws to the universe, which, like the institutions of men, carry in themselves…
— John Playfair
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Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it - likewise…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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