Jean Rostand Quotes
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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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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.
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In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
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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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Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.
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One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.
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Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.
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I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.
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The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
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When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
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In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.
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Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.
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To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.
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It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.
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There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
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Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.
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Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.
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Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
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My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
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The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
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It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.
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It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.