"Amid this vast and overwhelming space and in……" — Hippolyte Taine
"Amid this vast and overwhelming space and in these boundless solar archipelagoes, how small is our own sphere, and the earth, what a grain of sand!"
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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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After the collection of facts, the search for causes.
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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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Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights…
— Saint Basil
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My wife was delighted with the home I had given her amid the prairies of the far west.
— Buffalo Bill
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I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle…
— Robert Burns
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It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from…
— R. H. Tawney
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man.
— Pliny the Elder
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It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures.…
— Pema Chodron
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How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes…
— Epicurus
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Old photograph: amid the set poses of her family, a young girl smiles and raises her hand a little.
— Mason Cooley
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Science arises from the discovery of Identity amid Diversity.
— William Stanley Jevons
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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
— Lucretius
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