What did Jean Rostand mean by: I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books. Jean Rostand Biologist · France Copy
+ In politics, yesterday’s lie is attacked only to flatter today’s. Read explanation Author, January 18, 2024January 9, 2025, Jean Rostand, Deception, Manipulation, Power, 0 Jean Rostand Biologist · France
+ We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn’t wish to be. Read explanation Author, January 18, 2024January 9, 2025, Jean Rostand, Envy, Identity, Perspective, 0 Jean Rostand Biologist · France
+ In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one’s party three times a day. Author, January 18, 2024January 9, 2025, Jean Rostand, Identity, Integrity, 0 Jean Rostand Biologist · France
+ There are big and little truths, but all belong to the same race. Author, January 18, 2024January 9, 2025, Jean Rostand, Big, Race, 0 Jean Rostand Biologist · France
+ Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one’s taste for choosing. Author, January 18, 2024January 9, 2025, Jean Rostand, Choices, Reality, Taste, 0 Jean Rostand Biologist · France
+ Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become. Author, January 18, 2024January 9, 2025, Jean Rostand, Destiny, Equality, Evolution, 0 Jean Rostand Biologist · France
+ The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious. Read explanation Author, January 18, 2024January 9, 2025, Jean Rostand, Conflict, Distrust, 0 Jean Rostand Biologist · France
+ God, that checkroom of our dreams. Author, August 2, 2023January 2, 2025, Jean Rostand, Faith, Hope, Longing, 0 Jean Rostand Biologist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
