Jean Rostand Quotes

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• We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

  Jean Rostand

  People, Envy, Gossip

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• Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.

  Jean Rostand

  Funny, Death, Badass

  "Thoughts of a Biologist". 1939.

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• Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

  Jean Rostand

  Education, Science, Men

  "Thoughts of a Biologist". 1939.

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• In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.

  Jean Rostand

  Lying, Yesterday, Politics

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• Being right is less important to us than the freedom to be wrong.

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  Self Worth, Important

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• A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

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  Time, Travel, Men

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity.

  Jean Rostand

  Inspirational, Pity, Young

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• Hatred, for the man who is not engaged in it, is a little like the odor of garlic for one who hasn't eaten any.

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  Men, Hatred, Atheism

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• 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, Stupid, Vanity

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• Marriage simplifies life and complicates the day.

  Jean Rostand

  Marriage, Simplify

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• To live is often to struggle toward goals one has no desire to reach.

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  Struggle, Goal, Desire

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

  Jean Rostand

  Judging, Criticism, Praise

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• We are not naïve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.

  Jean Rostand

  Jobs, Teaching, Men

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• The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

  Jean Rostand

  Power, Vocation, Suspicious

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• It is horrible to see everything that one detested in the past coming back wearing the colors of the future.

  Jean Rostand

  Past, Government, Color

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• In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices.

  Jean Rostand

  Vices, Ideals

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• There are some persons we could not cut down to size without diminishing ourselves as well.

  Jean Rostand

  Cutting, Size, Wells

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.

  Jean Rostand

  Freedom, Science, Men

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• Somebody told me I should put a pebble in my mouth to cure my stuttering. Well, I tried it, and during a scene I swallowed the pebble. That was the end of that.

  Jean Rostand

  Mouths, Pebbles, Scene

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• I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.

  Jean Rostand

  Should Have, Use, Paradise

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• What makes our opponents useful is that they allow us to believe that without them we would be able to realize our goals.

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  Believe, Goal, Atheism

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• The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.

  Jean Rostand

  Independent, Belief, Conviction

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• If a given scientist had not made a given discovery, someone else would have done so a little later. Johann Mendel dies unknown after having discovered the laws of heredity: thirty-five years later, three men rediscover them. But the book that is not written will never be written. The premature death of a great scientist delays humanity; that of a great writer deprives it.

  Jean Rostand

  Book, Science, Men

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• On the brink of being satiated, desire still appears infinite.

  Jean Rostand

  Desire, Infinite, Stills

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• Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.

  Jean Rostand

  Truth, Science, Scientist

  1939 'Pense es d'un Biologiste', collected inThe Substance of Man (translated by Irma Brandeis,1962).

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