“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.”
More from Anatole France on Philosophy
“If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.”
“What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?”
“Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.”
“It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.”
“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.”
“That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.”
“I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.”
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Nietzsche
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
22 quotes“The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.”
Carl Jung
21 quotes“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
Immanuel Kant
20 quotes“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”
Heraclitus
19 quotes“All things flow nothing abides.”
H. L. Mencken
17 quotes“We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”
C.S. Lewis
15 quotes“[Consciousness] is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.”
Napoleon
14 quotes“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Samuel Beckett
14 quotes“The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”
Charlotte Brontë
13 quotes“The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye.”