Jules Michelet
Jules Michelet
Jules Micheletwas a French historian. He was born in Paris to a family with Huguenot traditions...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth21 August 1798
CountryFrance
race world india
At its starting point in India, the birthplace of races and religions, the womb of the world.
women obedience wells
Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey the more they rule.
race years forever
Each year, it is necessary to respire, to take breath again, to revive ourselves at the great living sources that forever keep their eternal freshness. Where can we find them if not at the cradle of our race, on the sacred summits from where descend the Indus and the Ganges....?
firsts instruments duty
The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.
philosophy reality trying
Woe be to him who tries to isolate one department of knowledge from the rest. All science is one: language, literature and history, physics, mathematics and philosophy; subjects which seem the most remote from one another are in reality connected, or rather they all form a single system.
dream epoch successors
Every epoch dreams its successor.
environment force forces-of-nature
You are one of the forces of nature.
friends way gains
The way to gain a friend is to be one
justice firsts social-justice
What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education.
goal achieve
Achieving a goal is nothing. The getting there is everything.
reality present-time
He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.
coffee reality clouds
Coffee, the sober drink, the mighty nourishment of the brain, which unlike other spirits, heightens purity and lucidity; coffee, which clears the clouds of the imagination and their gloomy weight; which illuminates the reality of things suddenly with the flush of truth.
miracle contradiction divine
Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions.