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Type: Clergyman Quotes Category: French Clergyman Quotes Year of Birth: 1866 Year of Death: 1954 Nationality: French Find on Amazon: Ernest Dimnet Related Authors: Francois Rabelais Joseph Roux Abbe Pierre Francois Fenelon Cardinal Richelieu Cardinal De Retz Alfred Loisy |
A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.
Ernest Dimnet All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy. Ernest Dimnet Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room. Ernest Dimnet Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. Ernest Dimnet Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. Ernest Dimnet Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking. Ernest Dimnet Ideas are the root of creation. Ernest Dimnet Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. Ernest Dimnet Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it. Ernest Dimnet The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. Ernest Dimnet The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present. Ernest Dimnet |
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