Quote

So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world.

Jules Verne

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jules Verne
Age: 77 †
Born: 1828
Born: February 8
Died: 1905
Died: March 24
Esperantist
Geographer
Librettist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Jules Gabriel Verne
Desire
Origin
Living
Superiority
Heart
Established
Work
Justify
Men
Perform
World
Survive
Endure
Justifies
Creatures
Dominion

More quotes by Jules Verne

Image
All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.
Jules Verne
Image
Science, my lad, has been built upon many errors but they are errors which it was good to fall into, for they led to the truth.
Jules Verne
Image
It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise.
Jules Verne
Image
What darkness to you is light to me
Jules Verne
Image
Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English.
Jules Verne
Image
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth.
Jules Verne
Image
A scholar has to know a little of everything.
Jules Verne
Image
I have always made a point in my romances of basing my so-called inventions upon a groundwork of actual fact, and of using in their construction methods and materials which are not entirely without the pale of contemporary engineering skill and knowledge.
Jules Verne
Image
[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
Jules Verne
Image
Anything you can imagine you can make real.
Jules Verne
Image
As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme
Jules Verne
Image
If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
Jules Verne
Image
Savages!' he echoed, ironically. 'You set foot on one of the shores of this globe, professor, and you’re surprised to find savages? Where aren’t there savages? Besides, are they any worse than others, these whom you call savages?
Jules Verne
Image
Better to put things at the worst at first and reserve the best for a surprise.
Jules Verne
Image
There is hope for the future, and when the world is ready for a new and better life, all these things will some day come to pass, - in God's good time
Jules Verne
Image
It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it.
Jules Verne
Image
The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization.
Jules Verne
Image
We now know most things that can be measured in this world, except the bounds of human ambition!
Jules Verne
Image
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
Jules Verne
Image
The colonists had no library at their disposal but the engineer was a book which was always at hand, always open at the page which one wanted, a book which answered all their questions, and which they often consulted.
Jules Verne