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Autobiography and memoir6 quotes

There are no small steps in great affairs. — Jean-Francois Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz · 1717 There is nothing in the world which does not have its decisive moment, and the masterpiece of good management is to recognize and grasp this moment. — Jean-Francois Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz · 1717 Not one of us knows what effect his life produces, and what he gives to others; that is hidden from us and must remain so, though we are often allowed to see some little fraction of it, so that we may not lose courage. — Albert Schweitzer · 1949 Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now—always, and indeed then most truly when it seems most unsuitable to actual circumstances. — Albert Schweitzer · 1922 Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live thoughtlessly and begins to devote himself to his life with reverence in order to give it true value. To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will to live. — Albert Schweitzer · 1933 Sculpture should walk on the tips of its toes, unostentatious, unpretentious, and light as the spoor of an animal in snow. — Jean Arp

Scientific literature5 quotes

Thought is only a gleam in the midst of a long night. But it is this gleam which is everything. — Henri Poincare · 1905 To doubt everything and to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; each saves us from thinking. — Henri Poincare · 1902 The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and life would not be worth living. — Henri Poincare · 1908 Discovery is discernment, selection. — Henri Poincare · 1908 Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. — Henri Poincare · 1901

Philosophical literature2 quotes

And with the guts of the last priest Let's wring the neck of the last king. — Denis Diderot · 1772 There are two sorts of laws, those of absolute equity and universality, and the bizarre ones which owe their autonomy only to blindness or to the force of circumstance. The latter merely cover the man who is breaking them with a passing disgrace, which time then transfers to the judges and the nations, on whom it remains forever. — Denis Diderot · 1805

Travel writing1 quote

Whoever has really seen Russia will find himself content to live anywhere else. It is always good to know that a society exists where no happiness is possible because, by a law of nature, man cannot be happy unless he is free. — Astolphe de Custine · 1843