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Quotes by French Authors
"There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion."
"We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise."
"How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?"
"All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy."
"When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us."
"Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day."
"We have nothing to fear but fear itself."
"Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there."
"Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma."
"Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it."
"No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition."
"Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments."
"I am determined to hold on as long as possible, but if I should disappear, I should not have had the time to familiarize my successors with the necessary information."
"Good sense tells us that earthly things are rare and fleeting, and that true reality exists only in dreams. To draw sustenance from happiness- natural or artificial - you must first have the courage to swallow it; and those who perhaps most merit happiness are precisely those on whom felicity, as mortals conceive it, always acts as a vomitive."
"A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it."
"Since there always has to be a certain number of astronauts manning the station at all times, one of the main aspects of the mission was to transport a new team to the station and bring back some members of the previous team back to Earth."
"Hence the same instant which killed the animals froze the country where they lived. This event was sudden, instantaneous, without any gradual development."
"A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten"."
"You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination."
"Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it."
"The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart."
"Eyes so transparent that through them the soul is seen."
"Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them."
"I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits."
"I am not interested in releasing best of stuff and I have not given my permission. You release best of packages when you're a has-been and have nothing new to offer."
"For future exploration, when we have the objective of going to the Moon, it is important to have several possibilities to go there, and within this framework of cooperation to have our own access to orbit around the Moon."
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