Jean Rostand Quotes
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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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Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.
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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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We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.
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A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.
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A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.
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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
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Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
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Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.
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Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.
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Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.
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To be adult is to be alone.
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Theories pass. The frog remains.
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There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.
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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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Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.
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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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I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance.
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Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
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Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
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Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
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The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
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Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't eaten any.