Quote

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Jean Rostand

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jean Rostand
Age: 82 †
Born: 1894
Born: October 30
Died: 1977
Died: September 4
Biologist
Historian
Philosopher
Writer
Paris
France
Beauty
Often
Art
Nothing
Subdued
Ugliness
Architecture

More quotes by Jean Rostand

Image
Kill one man, and you are murderer.
Jean Rostand
Image
Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and you're a conqueror.
Jean Rostand
Image
On tue un homme, on est un assassin. On tue des millions d'hommes, on est un conquérant. On les tue tous, on est un dieu. Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
Jean Rostand
Image
Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.
Jean Rostand
Image
Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
Jean Rostand
Image
Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.
Jean Rostand
Image
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
Jean Rostand
Image
It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
Jean Rostand
Image
A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
Jean Rostand
Image
In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
Jean Rostand
Image
Being right is less important to us than the freedom to be wrong.
Jean Rostand
Image
Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
Jean Rostand
Image
There are big and little truths, but all belong to the same race.
Jean Rostand
Image
Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife she has thought much worse things about you.
Jean Rostand
Image
One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
Jean Rostand
Image
It is horrible to see everything that one detested in the past coming back wearing the colors of the future.
Jean Rostand
Image
It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.
Jean Rostand
Image
Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.
Jean Rostand
Image
Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
Jean Rostand
Image
In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices.
Jean Rostand