"I have studied many philosophers and many cats.……" — Hippolyte Taine
"I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior."
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14 Quotes by Hippolyte Taine
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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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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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Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.
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A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the…
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Cats and dogs believe politicians are like cemetery caregivers; they are on top of everyone, but nobody listens.
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Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.
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My relationships with my cats has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance.
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Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.
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