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38 Émile Zola Quotes on Life & Truth (SCIENCE)

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Top 12 Most Famous Émile Zola Quotes (BEST)

“I believe that the future of humanity is in the progress of reason through science. I believe that the pursuit of truth, through science, is the divine ideal which man should propose to himself.”

Émile Zola
If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.Pin
If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.
Did science promise happiness I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.Pin
Did science promise happiness? I do not believe it. It promised truth, and the question is to know if we will ever make happiness with truth.
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.Pin
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, I will answer you 'I am here to live out loud.'Pin
If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, I will answer you: ‘I am here to live out loud.’
The truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.Pin
The truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.Pin
The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one’s intellect to know it better.
Nothing develops intelligence like travel.Pin
Nothing develops intelligence like travel.
Keep well; that is the half of wisdom and of happiness.Pin
Keep well; that is the half of wisdom and of happiness.
If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.Pin
If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.
Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.Pin
Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.
I would rather die of passion than of boredom.Pin
I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

2 Emotional Émile Zola Quotes About Animals

Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.Pin
Man’s highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.
The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.Pin
The fate of animals is of greater importance to me than the fear of appearing ridiculous; it is indissolubly connected with the fate of men.

7 Inspirational Émile Zola Quotes on Happiness & Passion

“I have but one passion: to enlighten those who have been kept in the dark, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and is entitled to happiness. My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.”

Émile Zola
I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love everything with more passion.Pin
I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love everything with more passion.
I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.Pin
I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don’t care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.
Lovers are made by a kiss.Pin
Lovers are made by a kiss.
Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrorsPin
Did not one spend the first half of one’s days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?
A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.Pin
A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.
She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.Pin
She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.

7 Deep Émile Zola Quotes About Life

“All the ugliness of the bourgeois is inscribed in the letters of the alphabet: chandeliers, devotional pictures, tapestries, wainscoting, woollen carpets, consoles, dressers and sideboards.”

Émile Zola
In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.Pin
In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.
The only wealth is life.Pin
The only wealth is life.
Everything is only a dream.Pin
Everything is only a dream.
If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.Pin
If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.
It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.Pin
It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.
In Paris, everything's for sale wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.Pin
In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.

10 Émile Zola Quotes that will Make You Think

There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.Pin
There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here.Pin
These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here.
Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.Pin
Through the centuries, the history of peoples is but a lesson in mutual tolerance.
Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.Pin
Governments are suspicious of literature because it is a force that eludes them.
Selling beauty is something I can understand. Even selling false beauty seems perfectly natural; it's a sign of progress.Pin
Selling beauty is something I can understand. Even selling false beauty seems perfectly natural; it’s a sign of progress.
One must be arrogant, indeed, to imagine that one can take everything in one's hand and know everything!Pin
One must be arrogant, indeed, to imagine that one can take everything in one’s hand and know everything!
Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.Pin
Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track.
A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.Pin
A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.
When people have not the same ideas, it is certainly better not to talk about them.Pin
When people have not the same ideas, it is certainly better not to talk about them.
Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living wellPin
Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilization reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?
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