Nothing develops intelligence like travel.

- Emile Zola

Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.

- Emile Zola

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

- Emile Zola

It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.

- Emile Zola

If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.

- Emile Zola

The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.

- Emile Zola

Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.

- Emile Zola

Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.

- Emile Zola

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

- Emile Zola