Ernest Dimnet

Personality is the knowledge that we are apart from the rest of the universe.

Education is the methodical creation of the habit of thinking.

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

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

Prejudices subsist in people's imagination long after they have been destroyed by their experience.

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

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it.

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

Do not read good books life is too short for that read only the best.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.

You can believe in God without believing in immortality but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in God.

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

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

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.

Ideas are the root of creation.

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