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Jean Rostand Quotes

Jean Rostand

French biologist and philosopher

Nationality: French
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Birth: 1894-1977
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The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
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To be adult is to be alone.
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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
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Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
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Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt..
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There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
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I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.
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Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
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To hate fatigues.
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The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
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To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.
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To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.
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Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
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The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.
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Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.
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It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
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We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.
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It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.
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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.
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In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
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A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
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Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.
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I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
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God, that dumping ground of our dreams.
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The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
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God, that checkroom of our dreams.
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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
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I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.
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