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Hippolyte Taine Quotes

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I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.  (Hippolyte Taine Quotes) I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior  (Hippolyte Taine Quotes) Vice and virtue are products like vitriol and sugar  (Hippolyte Taine Quotes) History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology  (Hippolyte Taine Quotes) After the collection of facts, the search for causes  (Hippolyte Taine Quotes) Insanity is not a distinct and separate empire; our ordinary life borders upon it, and we cross the frontier in some part of our nature  (Hippolyte Taine Quotes) The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies  (Hippolyte Taine Quotes) We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and then the children start all over again  (Hippolyte Taine Quotes) I’ve met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior  (Hippolyte Taine Quotes) His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what is proper  (Hippolyte Taine Quotes) The more I study the things of the mind the more mathematical I find them. In them as in mathematics it is a question of quantities; they must be treated with precision. I have never had more satisfaction than in proving this in the realms of art, politics and history  (Hippolyte Taine Quotes) In the stormy current of life characters are weights or floats which at one time make us glide along the bottom, and at another maintain us on the surface  (Hippolyte Taine Quotes) Amid this vast and overwhelming space and in these boundless solar archipelagoes, how small is our own sphere, and the earth, what a grain of sand!  (Hippolyte Taine Quotes) Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives  (Hippolyte Taine Quotes) A fixed idea is like the iron rod which sculptors put in their statues. It impales and sustains  (Hippolyte Taine Quotes) The beauty of a plastic work is, above all, plastic; and an art always degenerates when, discarding its own peculiar means for exciting interest, it borrows those of another art  (Hippolyte Taine Quotes)