Anatole France Quotes

“Reason is our guide and beacon-light; but when you have made a divinity of it, it will blind you and instigate you to crime”

― Anatole France, The Gods Are Athirst

topic:reason

“An education which does not cultivate the will, is an education that depraves the mind.”

― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

topic:education mind will

“But man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labour by taking up another.”

― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

topic:man

“there is not a single one of those books which does not contradict some other book; so that by the time one has read them all one does not know what to think about anything.”

― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

topic:books contradiction

“There are forces . . . infinitely more powerful than reason and science . . . Ignorance and folly”

― Anatole France, Thaïs

topic:science ignorance

“The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards; and curiosity itself can be vivid and wholesome only in proportion as the mind is contented and happy.”

― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

topic:mind teaching

“That child whose mother has never smiled upon him is worthy neither of the table of the gods nor of the couch of the goddesses.”

― Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

“A man's life would be intolerable if he knew what is to befall him.”

― Anatole France, The Gods Are Athirst

topic:ignorance

“What we call morality is merely a desperate enterprise, a forlorn hope, on the part of our fellow creatures to reverse the order of the universe, which is strife and murder, the blind interplay of hostile forces.”

― Anatole France, The Gods Are Athirst

topic:morality violence

“Soon those three udders of modern nations, monopolies, bill discounting, and fraudulent speculation, were swollen with the milk of wealth.”

― Anatole France, Penguin Island

topic:wealth

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