Hippolyte Taine Quotes
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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.
— Hippolyte Taine
I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
— Hippolyte Taine
The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.
— 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!
— Hippolyte Taine
After the collection of facts, the search for causes.
— Hippolyte Taine
A fixed idea is like the iron rod which sculptors put in their statues. It impales and sustains.
— 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
There are four types of men in the world: lovers, opportunists, lookers-on, and imbeciles. The happiest are the imbeciles.
— Hippolyte Taine
The music acted as a marinade in my weary spirit.
— Pat Conroy
I wish to reproduce things as they are or as they would be even if I myself did not exist.
— Hippolyte Taine
We love you Effie!
— Suzanne Collins
There are four varieties in society - the lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.
— Hippolyte Taine
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
History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.
— Hippolyte Taine