Hippolyte Taine Quotes

To have a true idea of man or of life, one must have stood himself on the brink of suicide, or on the door-sill of insanity, at least once.

Hippolyte Taine

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• I've always been a history lover. I've spent a lot of recreational time walking around historical castles and estates, in Britain and Europe, and so I know what the real thing looks like.

  

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• Nothing exists except through language.

  

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• There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.

  

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• Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.

  

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• To have a true idea of man or of life, one must have stood himself on the brink of suicide, or on the door-sill of insanity, at least once.

  

  Hippolyte Taine
  • Life
  • Suicide
  • Insanity