Jules Michelet Quotes

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The silences of history must be made to speak.

Jules Michelet
Improvement depends far less upon length of tasks and hours of application than is supposed. Children can take in but a little each day; they are like vases with a narrow neck; you may pour little or pour much, but much will not enter at a time.

Jules Michelet
England is an empire, Germany is a nation, a race, France is a person.

Jules Michelet
With the world began a war that will only end with the world, and not before: that of man against nature, mind against matter, freedom against fate. History is nothing but the story of this endless struggle.

Jules Michelet
France is the daughter of freedom. In human progress, the essential part, the main force, is called man. Man is his own Prometheus.

Jules Michelet
The intimate fusion of races is the identity of our nation, its personality.

Jules Michelet
The history of France begins with the French language. Language is the primary sign of nationality.

Jules Michelet
Great hearts alone understand how much glory there is in being good.

Jules Michelet
The insect has not my languages. He neither speaks by voice nor physiognomy. In what manner then, does he express himself? He speaks by his energies.

Jules Michelet
What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education.

Jules Michelet
Now call to mind that every creature nourishes other creatures on its surfaces, in the thickness of its solids, in its fluids, and in its blood; that each insect is a little world inhabited by insects; and that these again have parasites of their own.

Jules Michelet