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“I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.”
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Hippolyte Taine
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“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!”
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Hippolyte Taine
Source : Hippolyte Taine (1876). “The Modern Régime”
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“Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives.”
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Hippolyte Taine
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“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.”
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Hippolyte Taine
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“There are four varieties in society — the lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.”
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Hippolyte Taine
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“History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.”
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Hippolyte Taine
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“The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.”
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Hippolyte Taine
Source : "Philosophy of Art". Book by Hippolyte Taine, 1865.
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“There are four types of men in the world: lovers, opportunists, lookers-on, and imbeciles. The happiest are the imbeciles.”
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Hippolyte Taine
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“After the collection of facts, the search for causes.”
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Hippolyte Taine
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“In the stormy current of life characters are weights or floats which at one time make us glide along the bottom, and at another maintain us on the surface.”
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Hippolyte Taine
Source : Hippolyte Taine, John Durand (1896). “The philosophy of art. The ideal in art”
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“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 treated with precision. I have never had more satisfaction than in proving this in the realms of art, politics and history.”
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Hippolyte Taine
Source : Hippolyte Taine (1908). “Life and Letters of H. Taine: 1870-1892”
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“For thirty centuries, from her sacred seat the cat looked down, and crouching at her feet, beheld the race of conquering Pharaohs kneel.”
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Hippolyte Taine
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“His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what is proper.”
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Hippolyte Taine
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“A fixed idea is like the iron rod which sculptors put in their statues. It impales and sustains.”
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Hippolyte Taine
Source : Hippolyte Taine (1875). “Notes on Paris”, p.58
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