Quotes from Jules Michelet

Achieving a goal is nothing. The getting there is everything.

He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.

Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions

Each epoch dreams the one to follow.

El hombre caza y lucha. La mujer intriga y sueña; es la madre de la fantasía de los dioses. Posee la segunda visión, las alas que le permiten volar hacía el infinito del deseo y de la imaginación.

Man hunts and fights. Woman contrives and dreams; she is the mother of fancy, of the gods.

Alexander and Caesar have had this in common: to be loved and wept by the conquered, and to perish by the hands of their own countrymen. Such men have no country; they belong to the world.

Especialmente la medicina era un culto satánico porque lucha contra la enfermedad que era un merecido castigo de Dios, porque al curar el cuerpo se obstaculizaba el camino del alma hacia el cielo.

Porque la risa es una función esencial de nuestra naturaleza. ¿Cómo soportar la vida si no podemos reír, al menos en los intervalos entre nuestros dolores?

El domingo, después del oficio, había bastantes enfermos; pedían socorros y se les daba sólo palabras: -Has pecado y Dios te aflige. Da gracias, menos tendrás que sufrir en la otra vida. Resígnate, sufre, muere. La Iglesia tiene plegarias para sus difuntos.- Débiles, desmadejados, sin esperanza, ni ganas de vivir, seguían bien este consejo y dejaban escapar la vida.

And such is the power of the organization so introduced, that even when life shall appear to desert it, and its destruction by the barbarians inevitable, they will submit to its yoke. Despite themselves, they must dwell under the everlasting roofs which mock their efforts at destruction: they will bow the head, and, victors as they are, receive laws from vanquished Rome. ... Such is the work of civil order.

El hombre caza y lucha. La mujer intriga y sueña; es la madre de la fantasía, de los dioses. Posee la segunda visión, las alas que le permiten volar hacia el infinito del deseo y de la imaginación. Los dioses son como hombres: nacen y mueren sobre el pecho de una mujer.

L'homme, c'etait Thuriot, un dogue terrible, de la race de Danton; nous le retrouverons deux fois, au comencement et à la fin; sa parole est deux fois mortelle: el tue la Bastille, il tue Robespierre.

Man hunts and struggles. Woman intrigues and dreams; she is the mother of fantasy, the mother of the gods. She has second sight, the wings that enable her to fly to the infinite of desire and the imagination… The gods are like men: they are born and they die on a woman's breast…

Before the play begins, observe the theater.

Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren.

You are one of the forces of nature.

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education.

Great hearts alone understand how much glory there is in being good.

He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

Woman is the Sunday of man: not his repose only, but his joy; the salt of his life.

Love is strong in its passion; affection is powerful in its gentleness.

How beautifully everything is arranged by Nature; as soon as a child enters the world, it finds a mother ready to take care of it.