Anatole France
Anatole France
Anatole Francewas a French poet, journalist, and novelist. He was born in Paris, and died in Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire. He was a successful novelist, with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie française, and won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, characterized as they are by a nobility of style, a profound human sympathy, grace, and a true...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth16 April 1844
CountryFrance
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
It is by believing in roses that you make them bloom.
For the majority of people , though they do not know what to do with this life , long for another that shall have no end .
Theologians and philosophers, who make God the creator of Nature and the architect of the Universe, reveal Him to us as an illogical and unbalanced Being. They declare He is benevolent because they are afraid of Him, but they are forced to admit the truth that His ways are vicious and beyond understanding. They attribute a malignity to Him seldom to be found in any human being. And that is how they get human beings to worship Him. For our miserable species would never lavish worship on a just and benevolent God from whom they had nothing to fear.
The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it.
Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.
America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments.
For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free.
The more you say, the less they remember.
Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.
Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.
I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ... Only women and doctors know how necessary and how helpful lies are to men.
The power of love itself weakens and gradually becomes lost with age, like all the other energies of man.
In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.