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Ernest Dimnet
French
Clergyman
About the author
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.
Ernest Dimnet,
French
Clergyman
#Life
#Reward
All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
Ernest Dimnet,
French
Clergyman
#Philosophy
Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.
Ernest Dimnet,
French
Clergyman
#Habit
#Americans
#Improvement
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
Ernest Dimnet,
French
Clergyman
#Children
Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.
Ernest Dimnet,
French
Clergyman
#Thinking
#Habit
#Education
#Creation
Ideas are the root of creation.
Ernest Dimnet,
French
Clergyman
#Ideas
#Creation
A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.
Ernest Dimnet,
French
Clergyman
#State
#Consciousness
Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.
Ernest Dimnet,
French
Clergyman
#People
#Judgment
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
Ernest Dimnet,
French
Clergyman
#People
#Repetition
#Happiness
#Catastrophes
#Errors
The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
Ernest Dimnet,
French
Clergyman
#Past
#History
#Present
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
Ernest Dimnet,
French
Clergyman
#Architecture
#Soul