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Ernest Dimnet [1866-1954] French
Rank: 103
Clergyman, Author


Ernest Dimnet, French priest, writer and lecturer, is the author of The Art of Thinking, a popular book on thinking and reasoning during the 1930s.

Architecture, Education, Happiness

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Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. Education
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A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.
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Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.
103
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. Architecture
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The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things. Happiness
105
Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.
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The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
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Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.
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Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.
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All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
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Ideas are the root of creation.
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