Jean Rostand Quotes
A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.
Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one's taste for choosing.
Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.
It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.
It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.
One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.
lready at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.
I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.
The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
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.
To be adult is to be alone.
Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth.
Not to believe that something exists because it would be too horrible if it does not exist. There is no proof owing to the horrible one.
When I was young, I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity.
Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.
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.
As well as thoughts which are unworthy of us, we have thoughts of which we are unworthy.
The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions.
The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.
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.
To be an adult is to be alone.
There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
Few people are worthy to believe in nothing.
To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.
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.
