We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and then the children start all over again.
The more I study the things of the mind the more mathematical I find them. In them as in mathematics it is a question of quantities; they must be tre… - Hippolyte Taine
The more I study the things of the mind the more mathematical I find them. In them as in mathematics it is a question of quantities; they must be tre…
- Hippolyte Taine
The search for causes must come after the collection of facts. - Hippolyte Taine
The search for causes must come after the collection of facts.
To have a true idea of man or of life, one must have stood himself on the brink of suicide, or on the door-sill of insanity, at least once. - Hippolyte Taine
To have a true idea of man or of life, one must have stood himself on the brink of suicide, or on the door-sill of insanity, at least once.
Amid this vast and overwhelming space and in these boundless solar archipelagoes, how small is our own sphere, and the earth, what a grain of sand! - Hippolyte Taine
Amid this vast and overwhelming space and in these boundless solar archipelagoes, how small is our own sphere, and the earth, what a grain of sand!
Four varieties in society: lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest. - Hippolyte Taine
Four varieties in society: lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.
Change a virtue in its circumstances find it becomes a vice; change a vice in its circumstances, and it becomes a virtue. Regard the same quality fro… - Hippolyte Taine
Change a virtue in its circumstances find it becomes a vice; change a vice in its circumstances, and it becomes a virtue. Regard the same quality fro…
History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology. - Hippolyte Taine
History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.
A fixed idea is like the iron rod which sculptors put in their statues. It impales and sustains. - Hippolyte Taine
A fixed idea is like the iron rod which sculptors put in their statues. It impales and sustains.
Kindly politeness is the slow fruit of advanced reflection; it is a sort of humanity and kindliness applied to small acts and every day discourse: it… - Hippolyte Taine
Kindly politeness is the slow fruit of advanced reflection; it is a sort of humanity and kindliness applied to small acts and every day discourse: it…
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