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
Nothing
Subdued
Ugliness
Architecture
Beauty
Often
Art

More quotes by 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
Marriage simplifies life and complicates the day.
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
We find it easy to believe that praise is sincere: why should anyone lie in telling us the truth?
Jean Rostand
Image
I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.
Jean Rostand
Image
Theories pass. The frog remains.
Jean Rostand
Image
I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
Jean Rostand
Image
It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.
Jean Rostand
Image
The biologist passes. The frog stays the same.
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
We bestow on others praise in which we do not believe, on condition that in return they bestow upon us praise in which we do.
Jean Rostand
Image
The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.
Jean Rostand
Image
Quotations--always inexact. I don't trust people who cannot even copy out.
Jean Rostand
Image
Kill one man, and you are murderer.
Jean Rostand
Image
Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.
Jean Rostand
Image
Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
Jean Rostand
Image
On the brink of being satiated, desire still appears infinite.
Jean Rostand
Image
The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.
Jean Rostand
Image
Le biologiste passe, la grenouille reste. The biologist passes, the frog remains.
Jean Rostand
Image
Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and you're a conqueror.
Jean Rostand