5 Quotes & Sayings By Hippolyte Taine

Hippolyte Taine (1828-1893) was a French academic, critic, and writer. He is most famous for his analysis of Ancient Greek art, De l'Intelligence des Anciens (On the Intelligence of the Ancients) (1861), which was based on his doctoral thesis. The book has had a wide influence on the arts, especially on the history of architecture, which Taine considered to be one of the chief products of Ancient Greece.

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom...
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I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. Hippolyte Taine
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Not only does the State do the work badly on a domain not its own, bunglingly, at greater cost, and with less fruit than spontaneous organizations, but, again, through the legal monopoly which it deems its prerogative, or through the overwhelming competition which it exercises, it kills or paralyzes these natural organizations or prevents their birth; and hence so many precious organs, which, absorbed, atropic or abortive, are lost to the great social body. Hippolyte Taine
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The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. Hippolyte Taine
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There are four varieties in society the lovers the ambitious observers and fools. The fools are the happiest. Hippolyte Taine