Wisdom Quote by Théophile Gautier — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Whatever may have been said of the satiety of pleasure and of the disgust which usually follows passion, any man who has anything of a heart and who is not wretchedly and hopelessly blasé feels his love increased by his happiness, and very often the best way to retain a lover ready to leave is to give one's self up to him without reserve.”

“Le hasard, c'est peut-être le pseudonyme de Dieu quand il ne veut pas signer.”

“The dark season is not a sign that we have failed the spiritual life. It is a sign that the spiritual life has reached the place where the deepest work can finally begin — the work that the easier seasons, with all their warmth and light, could never quite reach.”

“So do flux and reflux--the rhythm of change--alternate and persist in everything under the sky.”

“The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not.”

“We built machines to answer every question, but forgot to ask what it means to be human.”

“There are 1,198,500,000 people alive now in China.”

“Fish for a man, he'll eat for a day, don't teach him to de-bone that fish, You may not have to worry about him tomorrow!”