Ernest Dimnet - From the Architecture category:
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. (Ernest Dimnet)
Ernest Dimnet - From the Books category:
A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers. (Ernest Dimnet)
Ernest Dimnet - From the Children category:
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. (Ernest Dimnet)
Ernest Dimnet - From the Happiness category:
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)
Ernest Dimnet - From the Ideas category:
Ideas are the root of creation. (Ernest Dimnet)
Ernest Dimnet - From the Life category:
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. (Ernest Dimnet)
Ernest Dimnet - From the Philosophy category:
All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy. (Ernest Dimnet)
Ernest Dimnet - From the Standards category:
Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it. (Ernest Dimnet)
Ernest Dimnet - From the Thinking category:
Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking. (Ernest Dimnet)
Ernest Dimnet - From the Tradition category:
The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present. (Ernest Dimnet)
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