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Top 15 Hippolyte Taine Quotes (2025 Update)

Hippolyte Taine Quote: “There are four types of men in the world: lovers, opportunists, lookers-on, and imbeciles. The happiest are the imbeciles.”

1. “There are four types of men in the world: lovers, opportunists, lookers-on, and imbeciles. The happiest are the imbeciles.”

— Hippolyte Taine

Hippolyte Taine Quote: “I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.”

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

— Hippolyte Taine

Hippolyte Taine Quote: “There are four varieties in society – the lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.”

3. “There are four varieties in society – the lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.”

— Hippolyte Taine

Hippolyte Taine Quote: “We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and then the children start all over again.”

4. “We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and then the children start all over again.”

— Hippolyte Taine

Hippolyte Taine Quote: “The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.”

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

— Hippolyte Taine

Hippolyte Taine Quote: “Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives.”

6. “Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives.”

— Hippolyte Taine

Hippolyte Taine Quote: “Kindly politeness is the slow fruit of advanced reflection; it is a sort of humanity and kindliness applied to small acts and every day discourse: it bids man soften towards others, and forget himself for the sake of others: it constrains genuine nature, which is selfish and gross.”

7. “Kindly politeness is the slow fruit of advanced reflection; it is a sort of humanity and kindliness applied to small acts and every day discourse: it bids man soften towards others, and forget himself for the sake of others: it constrains genuine nature, which is selfish and gross.”

— Hippolyte Taine

Hippolyte Taine Quote: “History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.”

8. “History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.”

— Hippolyte Taine

Hippolyte Taine Quote: “For thirty centuries, from her sacred seat the cat looked down, and crouching at her feet, beheld the race of conquering Pharaohs kneel.”

9. “For thirty centuries, from her sacred seat the cat looked down, and crouching at her feet, beheld the race of conquering Pharaohs kneel.”

— Hippolyte Taine

Hippolyte Taine Quote: “Change a virtue in its circumstances find it becomes a vice; change a vice in its circumstances, and it becomes a virtue. Regard the same quality from two sides; on one it is a fault, on the other a merit. The essential of a man is found concealed far below these moral badges.”

10. “Change a virtue in its circumstances find it becomes a vice; change a vice in its circumstances, and it becomes a virtue. Regard the same quality from two sides; on one it is a fault, on the other a merit. The essential of a man is found concealed far below these moral badges.”

— Hippolyte Taine

Hippolyte Taine Quote: “A fixed idea is like the iron rod which sculptors put in their statues. It impales and sustains.”

11. “A fixed idea is like the iron rod which sculptors put in their statues. It impales and sustains.”

— Hippolyte Taine

Hippolyte Taine Quote: “To have a true idea of man or of life, one must have stood himself on the brink of suicide, or on the door-sill of insanity, at least once.”

12. “To have a true idea of man or of life, one must have stood himself on the brink of suicide, or on the door-sill of insanity, at least once.”

— Hippolyte Taine

Hippolyte Taine Quote: “After the collection of facts, the search for causes.”

13. “After the collection of facts, the search for causes.”

— Hippolyte Taine

Hippolyte Taine Quote: “In the stormy current of life characters are weights or floats which at one time make us glide along the bottom, and at another maintain us on the surface.”

14. “In the stormy current of life characters are weights or floats which at one time make us glide along the bottom, and at another maintain us on the surface.”

— Hippolyte Taine

Hippolyte Taine Quote: “Amid this vast and overwhelming space and in these boundless solar archipelagoes, how small is our own sphere, and the earth, what a grain of sand!”

15. “Amid this vast and overwhelming space and in these boundless solar archipelagoes, how small is our own sphere, and the earth, what a grain of sand!”

— Hippolyte Taine

Hippolyte Taine Quote: “His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what is proper.”

16. “His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what is proper.”

— Hippolyte Taine

Hippolyte Taine Quote: “The more I study the things of the mind the more mathematical I find them. In them as in mathematics it is a question of quantities; they must be treated with precision. I have never had more satisfaction than in proving this in the realms of art, politics and history.”

17. “The more I study the things of the mind the more mathematical I find them. In them as in mathematics it is a question of quantities; they must be treated with precision. I have never had more satisfaction than in proving this in the realms of art, politics and history.”

— Hippolyte Taine

Hippolyte Taine Quote: “I wish to reproduce things as they are or as they would be even if I myself did not exist.”

18. “I wish to reproduce things as they are or as they would be even if I myself did not exist.”

— Hippolyte Taine

Hippolyte Taine Quote: “The combined ignorance of ten millions is not the equivalent of one man’s wisdom.”

19. “The combined ignorance of ten millions is not the equivalent of one man’s wisdom.”

— Hippolyte Taine

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