“What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!”
Art
“Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.”
HappinessAll Quotes by Anatole France
“Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.”
Men“The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.”
Equality“I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.”
Wisdom“Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.”
Pet“History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.”
History“It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.”
Nature“Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.”
Wisdom“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.”
Dreams“Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.”
Courage“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.”
Equality“We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.”
Best“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.”
Change“War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.”
War“An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.”
Education“To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.”
Imagination“In art as in love, instinct is enough.”
Art“The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.”
Art“An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.”
Education“No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.”
God