What did Hippolyte Taine mean by: The search for causes must come after the collection of facts. - Hippolyte Taine Copy
+ A fixed idea is like the iron rod which sculptors put in their statues. It impales and sustains. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hippolyte Taine, Fixed, Ideas, 0 - Hippolyte Taine
+ I’ve met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hippolyte Taine, Cat, Funny, Witty, 0 - Hippolyte Taine
+ Four varieties in society: lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hippolyte Taine, Ambitious, Fool, Four, 0 - Hippolyte Taine
+ I wish to reproduce things as they are or as they would be even if I myself did not exist. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hippolyte Taine, Wish, 0 - Hippolyte Taine
+ History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Hippolyte Taine, History, Problem, Psychology, 0 - Hippolyte Taine
Equilibrium is the profoundest tendency of all human activity. Explain - Jean Piaget Psychologist · Switzerland
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Selfness is an essential fact of life. The thought of nonselfness, precise sameness is terrifying. - Lewis Thomas Physician · USA
Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end. - George A. Moore Writer · Ireland
Le biologiste passe, la grenouille reste. The biologist passes, the frog remains. - Jean Rostand Biologist · France
