About Anatole France
Anatole France (French: [anatɔl fʁɑ̃s]; born François-Anatole Thibault [frɑ̃swa anatɔl tibo]; 16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924) was a French poet, journalist, and novelist. Several of his books were best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member...
More quotations from Anatole France
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them.
Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.
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