Quote of Honore de Balzac - The smallest flower is a thought...
Biography - Honore de Balzac:
French novelist and playwright.
Born: 1799 - Died: 1850
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: France
Born: 1799 - Died: 1850
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: France
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
Translation
(French)
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Quotes about life:
Quotes about thought:
Quotes for: flower
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.
"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."
Quotes for: intuition
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
If only these metaphysicians would give their attention to the lengthy discursive processes which lead science to build new intuitions.
A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way. But intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.
Honore de Balzac also said...
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