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
real climbing effort
The real, in all this efforts, is that we climb just for climbing.
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.
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.
children teaching each-day
Improvement depends far less upon length of tasks and hours of application than is supposed. Children can take in but a little each day; they are like vases with a narrow neck; you may pour little or pour much, but much will not enter at a time.
men indifference tyranny
The indifference of men, far more than their tyranny, is the torment of women.
given esteem knows
Our esteem is apt to be given where we know the least.
sunday men joy
Woman is the Sunday of man: not his repose only, but his joy; the salt of his life.
silence produce eloquence
What manly eloquence could produce such an effect as woman's silence?
men yield too-much
Woman's happiness consists in obeying; she objects to a man who yields too much.
life animal men
Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren.
strong powerful passion
Love is strong in its passion; affection is powerful in its gentleness.
family mother children
How beautifully everything is arranged by Nature; as soon as a child enters the world, it finds a mother ready to take care of it.
poverty poor knows
He who knows how to be poor knows everything.