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

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

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

God, that dumping ground of our dreams.

#Jean Rostand

Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste...

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Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity...

#Jean Rostand