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Quotes from Louis Lambert — Honoré de Balzac

1799–1850 France

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I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.

Louis Lambert (1832)

"Thinking is seeing," said he one day, carried away by some objection raised as to the first principles of our organisation."Every human science is based on deduction, which is a slow process of seeing by which we work up from the effect to the cause; or, in a wider sense, all poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things."

Louis Lambert (1832)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Honoré de Balzac (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.