Ernest Dimnet

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy. ”

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present. ”

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. ”

Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement. ”

Ideas are the root of creation. ”

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking. ”

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. ”

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. ”