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 with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie...
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.