Geburtsdatum | Dienstag, 16. April 1844 |
Geburtsort | Paris, France |
Todesort | Tours |
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Beschreibung | Anatole France (French: [anatɔl fʁɑ̃s]; born François-Anatole Thibault, [frɑ̃swa anatɔl tibo]; 16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924) was a French poet, journalist, and novelist with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie Française, and won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, characterized as they are by a nobility of style, a profound human sympathy, grace, and a true Gallic temperament". |
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.
That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
