“To live is often to struggle toward goals one has no desire to reach.”
Source: The substance of man
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Famous Jean Rostand Quotes
Source: The substance of man
“In art as in life the valid sacrifices are those that bring no income.”
Source: The substance of man
“Quotations--always inexact. I don't trust people who cannot even copy out.”
“There are some persons we could not cut down to size without diminishing ourselves as well.”
Source: The substance of man
“On the brink of being satiated, desire still appears infinite.”
Source: The substance of man
“Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.”
Source: The substance of man
“Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.”
“Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.”
Source: The substance of man
“Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.”
Source: The substance of man
“We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.”
Source: The substance of man
“My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.”
Source: The substance of man
“In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.”
Source: The substance of man
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“It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.”
Source: The substance of man
“One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.”
Source: The substance of man
“The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.”
Source: The substance of man
“To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.”
“To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.”
Source: The substance of man
“Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.”
Source: Can Man be Modified?
“Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.”
Source: The substance of man
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“One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.”
Source: The substance of man
“The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.”
Source: The substance of man
“The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.”
Source: The substance of man
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“A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.”
Source: The substance of man
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“The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.”
Source: The substance of man
“I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.”
Source: The substance of man
“I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.”
Source: The substance of man