Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
What men call civilization is the condition of present customs what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.
Anatole France
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
Biographer
Critic
Librarian
Literary Critic
Novelist
Poet
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Paris
France
Jacques François-Anatole Thibault
François-Anatole Thibault
Anatole Thibault
Conditions
Ones
Present
Barbarism
Call
Humankind
Past
Customs
Men
Condition
Civilization
Mankind
More quotes by Anatole France
Unhappiness does make people look stupid.
Anatole France
The dog is a religious animal. In his savage state he worships the moon and the lights that float upon the waters. These are his gods to whom he appeals at night with long-drawn howls.
Anatole France
Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable the other, who cries, makes it sacred.
Anatole France
You think you are dying for your country you die for the industrialists.
Anatole France
A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.
Anatole France
In truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
Anatole France
Justice is the sanction of established injustice.
Anatole France
People who have no weaknesses are terrible there is no way of taking advantage of them.
Anatole France
A simple style is like white light. Although complex, it does not appear to be so.
Anatole France
Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
Anatole France
We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
Anatole France
It is remarkable how great an influence our clothes have on our moral state.
Anatole France
Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.
Anatole France
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. [The ability to focus on positives and distract your mind from negatives for at least a time is a necessary skill for being happy.]
Anatole France
We thank God for having created this world, and praise Him for having made another, quite different one, where the wrongs of this one are corrected.
Anatole France
Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.
Anatole France
Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
Anatole France
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
Anatole France
Truth possesses within herself a penetrating force, unknown alike to error and falsehood. I say 'truth' and you understand my meaning. For the beautiful words truth and justice need not to be defined in order to be understood in their true sense.
Anatole France
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
Anatole France
