Antoine-Marin Lemierre famous quotes

The trident of Neptune is the sceptre of the world.
-- Antoine-Marin Lemierre

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Even when a bird walks, one feels it has wings.
-- Antoine-Marin Lemierre

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Even when the bird walks we see that it has wings.
-- Antoine-Marin Lemierre

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It is a profound mistake to think that every thing has been discovered; as well think the horizon the boundary of the world.
-- Antoine-Marin Lemierre

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Allegory dwells in a transparent palace.
-- Antoine-Marin Lemierre

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The trident of Neptune is the sceptre of the world.

Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune.

He wrongly accuses Neptune, who makes shipwreck a second time.

Neptune controls Pluto's orbit. Neptune is the bully of that neighborhood.

God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.

Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.

I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.

First Conjuration Addressed to Emperor Lucifer. Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me.

I thought religion would make me live with my head in the clouds, but as often as not, it grounds me in this world.

Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasn’t easy. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.