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The obligation to endure gives us the right to know. Jean Rostand Morality 108
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men. Jean Rostand Science 108
It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of. Jean Rostand Science 105
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued. Jean Rostand beauty 93
Kill a man and youre a murderer. Kill many and youre a conqueror. Kill them all youre a god. Jean Rostand Man 85
To be adult is to be alone. Jean Rostand Maturity 85
Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness. Jean Rostand Greatness 84
A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time. Jean Rostand Time 84
One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void. Jean Rostand Attachment 82
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are. Jean Rostand Criticism 82
I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell. Jean Rostand Paradise 80
Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said. Jean Rostand Profanity 78
To hate fatigues. Jean Rostand Hate 77
There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past. Jean Rostand Future 77
God, that dumping ground of our dreams. Jean Rostand Dream 73
Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god. Jean Rostand Uncategorized 72
To be adult is to be alone. Jean Rostand alone 70
It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed. Jean Rostand Opinion 70
God, that checkroom of our dreams. Jean Rostand God 69
Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you. Jean Rostand Marriage 68
Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us. Jean Rostand computers 66
One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it. Jean Rostand Assumptions 66
I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence. Jean Rostand Understanding 65
In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's. Jean Rostand Politics 63
We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds. Jean Rostand Humility 63
A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. Jean Rostand Age 62
Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind. Jean Rostand Mistakes 62
A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in. Jean Rostand Science 61
I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books. Jean Rostand Reality 58
Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we. Jean Rostand Faith 54
It may offend us to hear our own thoughts expressed by others: we are not sure enough of their souls. Jean Rostand Agreement 53
A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it. Jean Rostand Power 52
Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us. Jean Rostand Computer 52
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists. Jean Rostand Uncategorized 50
It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths. Jean Rostand Mistakes 49
The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same. Jean Rostand Idealism 48
Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become. Jean Rostand Evolution 47
Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it. Jean Rostand Truth 47
We are not na?ve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job. Jean Rostand Purity 45
When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic. Jean Rostand Science 42
Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth. Jean Rostand Science 40
To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few. Jean Rostand Judging 38
Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable. Jean Rostand Reading 38
The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions. Jean Rostand Belief 34
The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why. Jean Rostand Admiration 33
The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious. Jean Rostand Power 33
To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should. Jean Rostand Ideas 32
One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god. Jean Rostand Assassin 31
I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under their own glance. Jean Rostand Identity 31
The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God. Jean Rostand Atheism 29

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