Quotes by Anatole France

“Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.”

“The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.”

“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.”

“Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.”

Until one has loved an animal, a part of ones soul remains unawakened.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only plan, but also believe!

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.

It is possible that these millions of suns, along with thousands of millions more we cannot see, make up altogether but a globule of blood or lymph in the veins of an animal, of a minute insect, hatched in a world of whose vastness we can frame no conception, but which nevertheless would itself, in proportion to some other world, be no more than a speck of dust.

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.

We have never heard the devils side of the story, God wrote all the book.

The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.

An education isnt how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. Its being able to differentiate between what you know and what you dont.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.(From an introductory speech at a session of the Académie Française, December 24, 1896)

We chase dreams and embrace shadows.

It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel. -Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1844-1924)

If we dont change, we dont grow. If we dont grow, we arent really living.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

I never go into the country for a change of air and a holiday. I always go instead into the eighteenth century.