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Hippolyte Taine Quotes: "I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior."

I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.



Hippolyte Taine Quotes: "For thirty centuries, from her sacred seat the cat looked down, and crouching at her feet, beheld the race of conquering Pharaohs kneel."

For thirty centuries, from her sacred seat the cat looked down, and crouching at her feet, beheld the race of conquering Pharaohs kneel.




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."

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: "The search for causes must come after the collection of facts."

The search for causes must come after the collection of facts.




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."

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: "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!"

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: "Four varieties in society: lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest."

Four varieties in society: lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.




Hippolyte Taine Quotes: "History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology."

History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.



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."

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: "To have a true idea of man or of life, one must have stood himself on the brink of suicide, or on the door-sill of insanity, at least once."

To have a true idea of man or of life, one must have stood himself on the brink of suicide, or on the door-sill of insanity, at least once.



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."

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: "I wish to reproduce things as they are or as they would be even if I myself did not exist."

I wish to reproduce things as they are or as they would be even if I myself did not exist.




Hippolyte Taine Quotes: "A fixed idea is like the iron rod which sculptors put in their statues. It impales and sustains."

A fixed idea is like the iron rod which sculptors put in their statues. It impales and sustains.



Hippolyte Taine Quotes: "There are as many kinds of modesty as there are races. To the English woman it is a duty; to the French woman a propriety."

There are as many kinds of modesty as there are races. To the English woman it is a duty; to the French woman a propriety.



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."

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: "There are four varieties in society the lovers the ambitious observers and fools. The fools are the happiest."

There are four varieties in society the lovers the ambitious observers and fools. The fools are the happiest.



Hippolyte Taine Quotes: "The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior."

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."

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.