Jean Rostand Quotes

• Pasamos el tiempo envidiando a personas que no desearíamos ser.

  Jean Rostand

  People, Envy, Gossip

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• Mata a un hombre y serás un asesino. Mata a millones de hombres y serás un conquistador. Mátalos a todos y serás un dios.

  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

  Educación, Ciencia, Hombres

  "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.

  Jean Rostand

  Self Worth, Important

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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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• El odio, para el hombre que no se dedica a él, es un poco como el olor del ajo para quien no lo ha comido.

  Jean Rostand

  Men, Hatred, Atheism

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

  Jean Rostand

  Time, Travel, Men

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

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• La estupidez, el ultraje, la vanidad, la crueldad, la iniquidad, la mala fe, la falsedad... no vemos todo el conjunto cuando está orientado en la misma dirección que nosotros.

  Jean Rostand

  Faith, Stupid, Vanity

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• Marriage simplifies life and complicates the day.

  Jean Rostand

  Marriage, Simplify

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

  Jean Rostand

  Struggle, Goal, Desire

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

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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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• 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

  Libertad, Ciencia, Hombres

  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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• 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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• 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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• Lo que hace útiles a nuestros adversarios es que nos permiten creer que sin ellos seríamos capaces de alcanzar nuestros objetivos.

  Jean Rostand

  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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• We give others praise which we ourselves don't believe, as long as they respond with praise we can believe.

  Jean Rostand

  Believe, Long, Giving

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• Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.

  Jean Rostand

  Giving, Feelings, Said

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