"In the stormy current of life characters are……" — Hippolyte Taine
"In the stormy current of life characters are weights or floats which at one time make us glide along the bottom, and at another maintain us on the surface."
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Hippolyte Taine
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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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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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Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way…
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