What did Antoine Rivarol mean by: Reason is an historian, but the passions are actors. Antoine Rivarol Writer · France Copy
+ Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future. Author, January 9, 2024January 6, 2025, Antoine Rivarol, Complaint, Fear, Reflection, 0 Antoine Rivarol Writer · France
+ Indolence and stupidity are first cousins. Author, July 10, 2023January 2, 2025, Antoine Rivarol, Indolence, Relationship, Stupidity, 0 Antoine Rivarol Writer · France
+ What isn’t clear, isn’t French. Author, August 25, 2023January 2, 2025, Antoine Rivarol, Ambiguity, Clarity, 0 Antoine Rivarol Writer · France
+ Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls. Author, January 9, 2024January 6, 2025, Antoine Rivarol, Character, Influence, Transformation, 0 Antoine Rivarol Writer · France
+ Memory always obeys the commands of the heart. Author, July 3, 2023January 2, 2025, Antoine Rivarol, Emotion, Heart, Memory, 0 Antoine Rivarol Writer · France
+ It is not he who searches for praise who finds it. Author, November 2, 2023January 2, 2025, Antoine Rivarol, Authenticity, Humility, Recognition, 0 Antoine Rivarol Writer · France
+ Extremes produce reaction. Beware that our boasted civilization does not lapse into barbarism. Author, January 9, 2024January 6, 2025, Antoine Rivarol, Barbarism, Civilization, Reaction, 0 Antoine Rivarol Writer · France
+ A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool’s coat still. Author, January 9, 2024January 6, 2025, Antoine Rivarol, Appearance, Deception, Foolishness, 0 Antoine Rivarol Writer · France
There is no art without intoxication. But I mean a mad intoxication! Let reason teeter! Delirium! Jean Dubuffet Artist · France
Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of reason, or give up existence. Friedrich Engels Philosopher, social scientist, and political theorist · Germany
Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man. Jean Genet Playwright · France
