Enfance Nathalie Quotes

#1. We live in a world shaped by the ambiguous legacy of the Enlightenment ... [it] enlarged the scope of human freedom, prepared our minds for the scientific method, made man the measure of all things, and placed individual consent front and center on the political stage.

James Q. Wilson

#2. Wisdom sits with children round her knees.

William Wordsworth

#3. To the bachelor, the language of women is mystery. In those matters, a married man is already a scholar

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#4. No one has ever seen anything like it; but the sight may cost us dear. And, if I must say all, I think we are seeing here things which God never intended man to see.

Jules Verne

#5. I listen to silence. And you have a lot to say. Although I haven't quite figured out what it is yet ... I promise not to delve into what makes your silence so loud, if you promise not to walk out on me.

Rebecca Donovan

#6. Her heart was full and her senses were sharp, but her head felt liable to burst in the vacuum of her solitude.

Jonathan Franzen

#7. So passed the seasons then, so they pass now, and so they will pass in time to come, while we come and go like leaves of the tree that fall and are soon forgotten.

Howard Pyle