"I've met many thinkers and many cats, but……" — Hippolyte Taine
"I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior."
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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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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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Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way…
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Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat…
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Where do we say that a cell became a blade of grass, which became a starfish, which became a cat,…
— Michele Bachmann
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Cats are very independent animals. They're very sexy, if you want. Dogs are different. They're familiar. They're obedient. You call…
— Antonio Banderas
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If you call a cat, he may not come. Which doesn't happen with dogs. They're different types of animals. Cats…
— Antonio Banderas
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I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a…
— Charles Baudelaire
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There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat; if you don't pet her for 10 minutes…
— Scott Adams
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I have always been an animal lover. I had a hard time disassociating the animals I cuddled with - dogs…
— Kristen Bell
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I have my favorite cat, who is my paperweight, on my desk while I am writing.
— Ray Bradbury
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I never minded flying cheap. I always said to myself, 'Taking this flight saves enough money to rescue four dogs,…
— Elayne Boosler
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My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature.
— Anthony Bourdain
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I try to very hard to avoid a situation where I would be eating cat or dog; I've managed to…
— Anthony Bourdain
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I'm not Ted Nugent. My house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature. I…
— Anthony Bourdain
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