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The more I study the things of the mind the more mathematical I find them. In them as in mathematics it is a question of quantities; they must be treated with precision. I have never had more satisfaction than in proving this in the realms of art, politics and history.

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Man, like everything else that lives, changes with the air that sustains him.

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In the stormy current of life characters are weights or floats which at one time make us glide along the bottom, and at another maintain us on the surface.

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The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.

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Amid this vast and overwhelming space and in these boundless solar archipelagoes, how small is our own sphere, and the earth, what a grain of sand!

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Kindly politeness is the slow fruit of advanced reflection; it is a sort of humanity and kindliness applied to small acts and every day discourse: it bids man soften towards others, and forget himself for the sake of others: it constrains genuine nature, which is selfish and gross.

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To have a true idea of man or of life, one must have stood himself on the brink of suicide, or on the door-sill of insanity, at least once.

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Hippolyte Taine

Hippolyte Taine
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Born: April 21, 1828
Died: March 5, 1893 (aged 64)
Bio: Hippolyte Adolphe Taine was a French critic and historian. He was the chief theoretical influence of French naturalism, a major proponent of sociological positivism and one of the first practitioners of historicist criticism.
Known for:
  1. History of English literature (1872)
  2. Notes on England
  3. The Ancient Regime (1876)
  4. Les origines de la France contemporaine (1855)
  5. The Philosophy of Art (1870)

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