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Hippolyte Taine Quotes

1828–1893 France

Hippolyte Adolphe Taine (21 April 1828 – 5 March 1893) was a French critic and historian.

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Also known as: Taine

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The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.

Philosophy of Art (1865)

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

The way to be bored is to know where you are going and the way to get there.

Napoleon, far more Italian than French, Italian by race, by instinct, imagination, and souvenir, considers in his plan the future of Italy, and, on casting up the final accounts of his reign, we find that the net profit is for Italy and the net loss is for France.

Napoleon's Views of Religion (1891)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Hippolyte Taine (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.