Hippolyte Taine famous quotes

03-26-2025

I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
-- Hippolyte Taine

#Cat #Mets #Thinker
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

#Space #Earth #Spheres
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.
-- Hippolyte Taine

#Philosophy #Animal #Men
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.
-- Hippolyte Taine

#Children #Years #Three
There are four varieties in society â€” the lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.
-- Hippolyte Taine

#Ambitious #Four #Fool
History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.
-- Hippolyte Taine

#Psychology #Problem #Mechanic
The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.
-- Hippolyte Taine

#Art #Men #Intellectual
There are four types of men in the world: lovers, opportunists, lookers-on, and imbeciles. The happiest are the imbeciles.
-- Hippolyte Taine

#Men #Stupidity #Imbeciles
After the collection of facts, the search for causes.
-- Hippolyte Taine

#History #Causes #Facts
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.
-- Hippolyte Taine

#Inspirational #Character #Weight
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.
-- Hippolyte Taine

#Art #Mind #Satisfaction
For thirty centuries, from her sacred seat the cat looked down, and crouching at her feet, beheld the race of conquering Pharaohs kneel.
-- Hippolyte Taine

#Cat #Feet #Race
His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what is proper.
-- Hippolyte Taine

#Cat #Tongue #Smooth
A fixed idea is like the iron rod which sculptors put in their statues. It impales and sustains.
-- Hippolyte Taine

#Ideas #Iron #Fixed

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