"History is nothing but a problem of mechanics……" — Hippolyte Taine

"History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology."

— Hippolyte Taine

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14 Quotes by Hippolyte Taine

Hippolyte Taine has 14 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

There are four types of men in the world: lovers, opportunists, lookers-on, and imbeciles. The happiest are the imbeciles.
I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what…
For thirty centuries, from her sacred seat the cat looked down, and crouching at her feet, beheld the race of…
The more I study the things of the mind the more mathematical I find them. In them as in mathematics…
In the stormy current of life characters are weights or floats which at one time make us glide along the…
After the collection of facts, the search for causes.
Amid this vast and overwhelming space and in these boundless solar archipelagoes, how small is our own sphere, and the…
The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives…
There are four varieties in society — the lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.
We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty…
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 Applied Quotes

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I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I… — Michele Bachmann
Theology is a science of mind applied to God. — Henry Ward Beecher
Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to… — Pope Benedict XVI
I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right… — Miguel de Cervantes
Sanely applied advertising could remake the world. — Stuart Chase
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. — Noam Chomsky
Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to… — Henri Frederic Amiel
Common sense is calculation applied to life. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Theology is only thought applied to religion. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If we don't rededicate ourselves to education with the same attitude Americans have applied to going to the moon and… — Meg Whitman
A good solution applied with vigor now is better than a perfect solution applied ten minutes later. — George S. Patton
When you authorised Congress to borrow money, and to contract debts, for carrying on the late war, you could not… — Unknown Author

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