Quote of Alphonse de Lamartine - Limited in his nature, infinite in...
Biography - Alphonse de Lamartine:
French writer, poet and politician.
Born: 1790 - Died: 1869
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: France
Born: 1790 - Died: 1869
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: France
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
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Quotes for: Desire
My third maxim was to try always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to alter my desires rather than change the order of the world.
Quotes for: Infinity
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.
Quotes for: limit
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.
'Know yourself' is the whole of science. Only at the end of the perception of all things will man have recognized himself. For things are only the borders of man.
Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
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