Anatole France
Anatole France
Anatole Francewas a French poet, journalist, and novelist. He was born in Paris, and died in Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire. He was a successful 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...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth16 April 1844
CountryFrance
Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
The impotence of God is infinite.
Intelligent women always marry fools
We live between two dense clouds; the forgetting of what was and the uncertainty of what will be.
There is only one science, love, one riches, love, only one policy, love. To make love is all the law and the prophets.
So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.
What we call happiness is what we do not know.
Lack of understanding is a great power. Sometimes it enables men to conquer the world.
The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it.
Theologians and philosophers, who make God the creator of Nature and the architect of the Universe, reveal Him to us as an illogical and unbalanced Being. They declare He is benevolent because they are afraid of Him, but they are forced to admit the truth that His ways are vicious and beyond understanding. They attribute a malignity to Him seldom to be found in any human being. And that is how they get human beings to worship Him. For our miserable species would never lavish worship on a just and benevolent God from whom they had nothing to fear.
For the majority of people , though they do not know what to do with this life , long for another that shall have no end .
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
The law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges.
We thank God for having created this world, and praise Him for having made another, quite different one, where the wrongs of this one are corrected.