What is there unreasonable in admitting the intervention of a supernatural power in the most ordinary circumstances of life?
Interpretation
This quote suggests that acknowledging a supernatural influence in daily life is not irrational.
Jules Verne's quote challenges the notion of reason by proposing that recognizing a supernatural power in even the simplest events is a valid perspective. It reflects the idea that life is often filled with mysteries and phenomena that may go beyond human understanding, thus allowing for a broader interpretation of existence that includes the possibility of the extraordinary in everyday life.
In practice
In a philosophical discussion about the nature of reality.
Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for foreign cultures, to establish friendships, and above all to contribute to international cooperation and peace throughout the world.
It is always a vulgar and often an unhealthy pastime, and it is a vice which does not go alone; the man who gambles will find himself capable of any evil.
Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word 'impossible' is not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise.
However strong, however imposing a ship may appear, it is not 'disgraced' because it flies before the tempest. A commander ought always to remember that a man's life is worth more than the mere satisfaction of his own pride. In any case, to be obstinate is blameable, and to be wilful is dangerous.
The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers - just as the Italians are musicians and the Germans metaphysicians - by right of birth. Nothing is more natural, therefore, than to perceive them applying their audacious ingenuity to the science of gunnery.
Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy.
God's address is at the end of your rope.
And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're inside.
Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
Religion is so frequently a source of confusion in political life, and so frequently dangerous to democracy, precisely because it introduces absolutes into the realm of relative values.
My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don't belong.
The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.
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