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Gérard de Nerval

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Biography - Gérard de Nerval:

French writer and poet.
Born: 1808 - Died: 1855
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.



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French
L’arbre de science n’est pas l’arbre de vie ! Cependant, pouvons-nous rejeter de notre esprit ce que tant de générations intelligentes y ont versé de bon ou de funeste ? L’ignorance ne s’apprend pas.




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All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green,




Quotes for: life


Quotes

Quotes about life:


As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.





Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.





A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.





There is more to life than increasing its speed.





To live means to love, but above all, to love life.





Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.











Quotes for: intelligence


Quotes

Quotes about intelligence:


Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our mind by means of our language.





To be able to discern what is true as true and what is false as false — this is the mark and character of intelligence.





Intelligence has value only in the service of love.





What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.





Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.





Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.











Quotes for: ignorance


Quotes

Quotes about ignorance:


The opposite of humility is pride, and all pride is ignorance.





The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.





Ignorance is the mother of all evils.





I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance.





Suppose a man can convince me of error and bring home to me that I am mistaken in thought or act; I shall be glad to alter, for the truth is what I pursue, and no one was ever injured by the truth, whereas he is injured who continues in his own self-deception and ignorance.





Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Plato / 











Quotes for: knowledge


Quotes

Quotes for: knowledge


True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.





Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.





It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.





The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.





Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.





Human wisdom consists in a knowledge of the order in which it is profitable to know things;











Quotes

Quotes for: tree


You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.





The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be miserable. A tree does not know itself to be miserable.





Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.





Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.





It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.





The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.











Quotes

Quotes for: generation


Amongst democratic nations, each new generation is a new people.





Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.





In the human heart there is a perpetual generation of passions; so that the ruin of one is almost always the foundation of another.





Nations do not grow old in the same way that men do. Each generation born within the nation is like a new people.





An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.





When the older generation makes mistakes, the younger learns a bad lesson.











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Gérard de Nerval also said...


There is only one vice of which no-one boasts - ingratitude.





Illusions fall away, like the peels of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience.





Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.





Nothing is indifferent, nothing is powerless in the universe; an atom can dissolve everything, an atom can save everything





Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.





When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation.












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