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Henri Poincare5 quotes
Thought is only a gleam in the midst of a long night. But it is this gleam which is everything. — Henri Poincare · 1905To doubt everything and to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; each saves us from thinking. — Henri Poincare · 1902The 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 · 1908Discovery is discernment, selection. — Henri Poincare · 1908Science 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 · 1901Albert Schweitzer3 quotes
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 · 1949Truth 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 · 1922Affirmation 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 · 1933Arthur Rimbaud3 quotes
Lighter than a cork I danced on the waves. — Arthur Rimbaud · 1871I have bathed in the Poem of the Sea, steeped in
Stars, and milky, devouring the green azures. — Arthur Rimbaud · 1871Life is the farce which everyone has to perform. — Arthur Rimbaud · 1873Denis Diderot2 quotes
And with the guts of the last priest
Let's wring the neck of the last king. — Denis Diderot · 1772There 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 · 1805Astolphe de Custine1 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 · 1843Charles-Guillaume Etienne1 quote
If you want something done right, do it yourself. — Charles-Guillaume Etienne · 1807Gaston Bachelard1 quote
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace. — Gaston Bachelard · 1958Jean Arp1 quote
Sculpture should walk on the tips of its toes, unostentatious, unpretentious, and light as the spoor of an animal in snow. — Jean ArpJean Baudrillard1 quote
We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and smug in "the social," our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures. — Jean Baudrillard · 1987