Camille Flammarion Quotes

#1. Heed my words, daughter, if you ever mean to be happy: Never give yourself to a man.

Donna Woolfolk Cross

#2. The faculty of continual transformation ... is a profound expression of the dynamic character of the mind

Anagarika Govinda

#3. The road to glory is paved with persistence...

Saurabh Singal

#4. House-watching is an art. You have to develop a way of seeing how a building sits in its landscape or streetscape. You have to discover how much room it takes up in the world, how much of the world it displaces.

Edmund De Waal

#5. Lightning seems a thought, which instead of being attached to a brain, is attached to an electric current.

Camille Flammarion

#6. Le Verrier - without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky - had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation, and, as it were, touched it with the tip of his pen!

Camille Flammarion

#7. With each dream accomplished, bigger ones are put in their place.

Gina Rodriguez

#8. May we attribute to the color of the herbage and plants, which no doubt clothe the plains of Mars, the characteristic hue of that planet, which is noticeable by the naked eye, and which led the ancients to personify it as a warrior?

Camille Flammarion

#9. There are men who would be afraid to commit themselves on the doctrine that castor oil is a laxative.

Camille Flammarion

#10. The supernatural does not exist.

Camille Flammarion

#11. I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'

Naomi Campbell

#12. The present inhabitation of Mars be a race superior to ours is very probable.

Camille Flammarion

#13. Avoiding setting too strong rules is the best way not to have problems with your own rules.

Eraldo Banovac

#14. Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other.

Camille Flammarion

#15. Men ... have had the vanity to pretend that the world creation was made for them, whilst in reality the whole creation does not suspect their existence.

Camille Flammarion

#16. We must guard against allowing anger to drag us into sin.

Joyce Meyer

#17. There's your labyrinth of suffering. We are all going. Find your way out of that maze.

John Green

#18. Nature is so varied in its modes of action, so multiple in the manisftations of its power, that we have no night to set any limits to its capabilities.

Camille Flammarion

#19. If the existence of human beings leads to nothing, what is all this comedy about?

Camille Flammarion

#20. What, then, is this blue sky, which certainly does exist, and which veils from us the stars during the day?

Camille Flammarion

#21. The universe is so immense that it appears immutable, and that the duration of a planet such as that of the earth is only a chapter, less than that, a phrase, less still, only a word of the universe's history.

Camille Flammarion