Anatole France Quotes About Literature
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Silence is the wit of fools.
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War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.
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The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
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An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
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I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
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One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.
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What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
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The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference.
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It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.
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History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
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Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
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Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
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Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
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Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
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The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
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Of all the sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
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Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
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Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
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Suffering... We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
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