"After the collection of facts, the search for…" — Hippolyte Taine
"After the collection of facts, the search for causes."
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14 Quotes by Hippolyte Taine
Hippolyte Taine has 14 quotes on this site.
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There are four types of men in the world: lovers, opportunists, lookers-on, and imbeciles. The happiest are the imbeciles.
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I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
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His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what…
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For thirty centuries, from her sacred seat the cat looked down, and crouching at her feet, beheld the race of…
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The more I study the things of the mind the more mathematical I find them. In them as in mathematics…
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In the stormy current of life characters are weights or floats which at one time make us glide along the…
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Amid this vast and overwhelming space and in these boundless solar archipelagoes, how small is our own sphere, and the…
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The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives…
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History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.
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There are four varieties in society — the lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.
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We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty…
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Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way…
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More Causes Quotes
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one of 5,764 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
— Hannah Arendt
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause…
— Mahmoud Abbas
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In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.
— Richard Armour
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So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the…
— Antonin Artaud
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I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.
— Rowan Atkinson
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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
— Saint Augustine
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
— Marcus Aurelius
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We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the…
— Marcus Aurelius
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A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the…
— Irving Babbitt
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The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not…
— Edward Bach
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During my lifetime, I realized that discrimination was not accidental, that there were structural roots and causes to it. So…
— Michelle Bachelet
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