Jules Michelet
Jules Michelet
Jules Micheletwas a French historian. He was born in Paris to a family with Huguenot traditions...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth21 August 1798
CountryFrance
miracle contradiction divine
Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions.
reality present-time
He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.
friends way gains
The way to gain a friend is to be one
environment force forces-of-nature
You are one of the forces of nature.
goal achieve
Achieving a goal is nothing. The getting there is everything.
dream epoch successors
Every epoch dreams its successor.
firsts instruments duty
The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.
race years forever
Each year, it is necessary to respire, to take breath again, to revive ourselves at the great living sources that forever keep their eternal freshness. Where can we find them if not at the cradle of our race, on the sacred summits from where descend the Indus and the Ganges....?
philosophy reality trying
Woe be to him who tries to isolate one department of knowledge from the rest. All science is one: language, literature and history, physics, mathematics and philosophy; subjects which seem the most remote from one another are in reality connected, or rather they all form a single system.
race world india
At its starting point in India, the birthplace of races and religions, the womb of the world.
husband fear wife
Fear accomplishes much in love. The husband of the Middle Ages was loved by his wife for his very severity. The bride of William the Conqueror, having been beaten by him, recognized him by this token for her lord and husband
marriage wife wish
If you wish to ruin yourself, marry a rich wife.
family mother children
How beautifully everything is arranged by Nature; as soon as a child enters the world, it finds a mother ready to take care of it.
life animal men
Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren.