French Academic Quotes

Étienne Bonnot de Condillac

Jean-Claude Rodet

Jules Payot

In undertaking the conquest of self it is of the utmost importance to form strong bonds of habit between ideas and conduct.

We cannot recollect the ignorance in which we were born.

Étienne Bonnot de Condillac

Use your brain as well as your hand.

Jean-Claude Rodet

The book known by the name of the Apocalypse, has seemed to be until now unintelligible, merely because people persisted to see in it a real prediction of the future, which every one has explained after his own fashion, and in which they have always found what they wanted, namely anything but that, what the book contained.

Charles-François Dupuis

The pleasure of their [the Imagists'] poetry is not the satisfaction of discovering little by little, but of seizing at a single blow, in the fullest vitality, the image, a fusion of reality in words.