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Famous Anatole France Quotes
“Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.”
“It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.”
“I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.”
“What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.”
“The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.”
“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.”
“Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.”
“Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.”
“An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Anatole France (Illustrated)
“Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.”
Source: On life & letters