Quotes by Jean Rostand

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

#Art

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

#Politics

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it

#Truth

Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.

#Computers

The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't...

#Books

Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood / we fail to see the whole...

#Stupidity

Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined...

#Evolution, #Mankind

A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few...

#Mind

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

#Jean Rostand

I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the...

#Jean Rostand

Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the...

#Jean Rostand

Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.

#Jean Rostand