Quote of Arthur Rimbaud - I saw that all beings are...
Biography - Arthur Rimbaud:
French poet.
Born: 1854 - Died: 1891
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: France
Born: 1854 - Died: 1891
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: France
I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
Translation
(French)
See also...
Quotes about life:
Quotes about happiness:
Quotes about action:
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law.
Quotes for: morality
All our dignity consists, then, in thought. By it we must elevate ourselves, and not by space and time which we cannot fill.
Let us endeavour then to think well; this is the principle of morality.
Let us endeavour then to think well; this is the principle of morality.
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and reverence, the more often and more steadily one reflects on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
Quotes about weakness:
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not, than in those who know it.
Arthur Rimbaud also said...
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