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Quotes by French Authors
"Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures."
"But, yes, now I wouldn't do some of those soundtracks the way I did them."
"Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks."
"And, you run also video because to fly this arm, you're relying mostly on some external camera views that may be coming from the arm itself or from the station."
"Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us."
"Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good."
"This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate."
"It's pretty refreshing to be in a situation where the spotlight is on someone else."
"Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men."
"Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen."
"... I should have been struck down by the despair a young lover feels who has sworn lifelong fidelity, when a friend speaks to him of the other mistresses he will have in time to come."
"Moreover, it thus follows that not a great deal of time was needed for the large animals of the three major parts of the world to become known to the people who spent time on the coasts of those regions."
"If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness."
"What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude."
"The truest wisdom is a resolute determination."
"The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it."
"A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them."
"True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing."
"I see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon."
"Retire within yourselves, but first prepare yourselves to receive yourselves there. It would be madness to trust yourselves to yourselves if you do not know how to control yourselves. There are ways of failing in solitude as well as in company."
"Naturally, in the course of my life I have made lots of mistakes, large and small, for one reason or another, but at the heart of it all, every time I made a mistake it was because I was not radical enough."
"Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence."
"Logic works, metaphysics contemplates."
"Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation."
"The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time."
"All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books."
"If you want people to think well of you do not speak well of yourself."
"Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism."
"Without doubt, it is a delightful harmony when doing and saying go together."
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