Art ought never to be considered except in its relations wit...
Quotes Alfred de Vigny
But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure p...
Do you know that charming part of our country which has been...
Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume ...
France, for example, loves at the same time history and the ...
From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it t...
I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first lo...
Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions ...
Let us dream that once upon a time have lived men stronger a...
No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless...
Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes)...
Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an ex...
Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction...
On the day when man told the story of his life to man, histo...
One might almost reckon mathematically that, having undergon...
The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtle...
The adopted fact is always better composed than the real one...
The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the ge...
The study of social progress is to-day not less needed in li...
We live in an age of universal investigation, and of explora...
We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, ...
What is the use of theorizing as to wherein lies the charm t...
What it values most of all is the sum total of events and th...
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