Quote by Gustave Flaubert
The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded. - Gustave Fla

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded. – Gustave Flaubert

Other quotes by Gustave Flaubert

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. – Gustave Flaubert

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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. – Gustave Flaubert

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Art
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Every man is a volume, if you know how to read him. – William Ellery Channing, “Charge for the Ordination of Rev. Robert C. Waterston”

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Man is the only trained animal who expects his reward before he does his trick. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. – Don Marquis

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Are we marionettes, or are we creatures of free will who just happen to have a lot of jerky reflexes? – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that dont change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow. – Woody Guthrie

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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It is rather a problem of how to secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for ends whose relative importance only those individuals know. – Friedrich August von Hayek

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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible. – Saint Teresa of Avila

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