Jules Michelet Quotes
1798–1874 France
Jules Michelet (21 August 1798 – 9 February 1874) was a French historian.
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The last people in the world in whom the personality would consent to be absorbed into pantheism is the French.
Great hearts alone understand how much glory there is in being good.
The intimate fusion of races is the identity of our nation, its personality.
France is the daughter of freedom. In human progress, the essential part, the main force, is called man. Man is his own Prometheus.
From India comes to us a torrent of light, a river of Right and Reason.
The history of France begins with the French language. Language is the primary sign of nationality.
Out of India, until [17]89 there fell a torrent of light—the river of Right and Reason.
England is an Empire, Germany a race; France is a person.
How can there be on earth a Lone Woman?
La Femme (1860)
With the world began a war that will only end with the world, and not before: that of man against nature, mind against matter, freedom against fate. History is nothing but the story of this endless struggle.
That year will always remain a dear and cherished memory; it was the first time I had the opportunity to read the great sacred poem of India, the divine Rarnayana. If anyone has lost the freshness of emotion, let him drink a long draught of life, and youth from that deep chalice.
Strange spectacle! To see a mother giving her daughter, whom but yesterday she was suckling at her breast, this gross aliment of bloody meats, and the dangerous excitant wine!
Whereas, in our Occident, the most dry and sterile minds brag in front of Nature, the Indian genius, the most rich and fecund of all, knows neither small nor big and has generously embraced universal fraternity, even the identity of all souls.
Each year, it is necessary to respire, to take breath again, to revive ourselves at the great living sources that forever keep their eternal freshness. Where can we find them if not at the cradle of our race, on the sacred summits from where descend the Indus and the Ganges?