Birth: February 17, 1803 Death: March 27, 1875
The ceding of Alsace-Lorraine is nothing but war in perpetuity under the mask of peace..
Time is the fairest and toughest judge..
Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot..
Today as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy on the ruins of Numantia; while a….
It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion..
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue..
The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, ….
Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes….
What we share with another ceases to be our own..
Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as ….
What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world?.
I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms..
An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body..