Hippolyte Taine Quotes

Change a virtue in its circumstances find it becomes a vice; change a vice in its circumstances, and it becomes a virtue. Regard the same quality from two sides; on one it is a fault, on the other a merit. The essential of a man is found concealed far below these moral badges.

Hippolyte Taine

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• A lot of people have it tougher than I do.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • People
  • Lot
  • Tougher

• Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

  

  W. H. Murray
  • Power
  • Dream
  • Magic

• Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Travels
  • Who

• I think that liberals need to grow up.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Up
  • Think
  • Grow

• The Republican Party is the Grand Old Party. It's made enormous contributions to the success of our country. And it is a party that has embraced its leadership role when it has had the majority or the White House.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Country
  • House
  • Success

• I'm always glad to see somebody rethink something rather than reproduce something I did.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Always
  • See
  • Something

• For NASA, space is still a high priority.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • High
  • Space
  • Priority

• The first cellphone I owned was hardly a slim, high-tech device - it was more like a brick with buttons, only with worse reception. If you wanted to use your phone to give someone a message, you were better off throwing it at him and hoping you broke his car window.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • High
  • Car
  • Better

• While it is often true that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, it seems like Yahoo's almost obsessive focus on Google is taking away from its other businesses.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • True
  • Friend
  • Focus

• Wir wollen sein ein einzig Volk von Brüdern, in keiner Not uns trennen und Gefahr. Wir wollen frei sein, wie die Väter waren, eher den Tod, als in der Knechtschaft leben. Wir wollen trauen auf den höchsten Gott und uns nicht fürchten vor der Macht der Menschen.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • Die

• Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine.

  

  Irwin Edman
  • Real
  • Education
  • Process

• Let us not sneer at the values of the World's conscience, whose indignation has already forced Hitler's fascism to retrreat.

  

  Leon Blum
  • World
  • Values
  • Fascism

• I have viewed the West as if it were not only the salvation of China but also the natural and ultimate destination of all humanity.

  

  Liu Xiaobo
  • Humanity
  • Salvation
  • China

• I stopped eating meat about six years ago, when I was working on the movie Selena. During the shoot, I had to hold a chicken for five hours-if you hold it and feel its little heart beating for hours, you just can't think about eating it.

  

  Constance Marie
  • Heart
  • Movie
  • Chicken

• We need to take nostalgia seriously as an energizing impulse, maybe even a form of knowledge. The effort to revalue what has been lost can motivate serious historical inquiry; it can also cast a powerful light on the present.

  

  T. J. Jackson Lears
  • Knowledge
  • Light
  • Lost

• You didn't see me on television, you didn't see news stories about me. The kind of role that I tried to play was to pick up pieces or put together pieces out of which I hoped organization might come. My theory is, strong people don't need strong leaders.

  

  Ella Baker
  • People
  • Up
  • Together

• No political event can be judged outside of the era and the circumstances in which it took place.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Political
  • Circumstances

• There has to be a consensus and this is a report, a set of circumstances, that the international community simply cannot ignore.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Community
  • Circumstances
  • Ignore

• Oh, I know: If you're fat, let's not blame you, let's sue McDonalds! Oh, for cryin' out loud, hey, if you smoke, not your fault, it's the tobacco company's fault! Hey, if you shoot somebody, not your fault, let's blame the gun industry!

  

  Brad Stine
  • Gun
  • Industry
  • Fault

• Conventional turbines only work up to 200 feet, but capturing a small fraction of the global wind energy at higher altitudes could be sufficient to supply the current energy needs of the globe.

  

  Saul Griffith
  • Energy
  • Feet
  • Currents

• For a person to have a contented life, they have to find something that challenges them and respond to it…

  

  Art Farmer
  • Life
  • Challenges
  • Respond

• Change a virtue in its circumstances find it becomes a vice; change a vice in its circumstances, and it becomes a virtue. Regard the same quality from two sides; on one it is a fault, on the other a merit. The essential of a man is found concealed far below these moral badges.

  

  Hippolyte Taine
  • Virtue
  • Circumstances
  • Fault