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 from two sides; on one it is a fault, on the other a merit. The essential of a man is found concealed far below these moral badges.
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
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.
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…
The search for causes must come after the collection of facts. - Hippolyte Taine
The search for causes must come after the collection of facts.
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.
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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