Quotes by Jean-Marie Guyau

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Scholars always seek to satisfy us, to answer our queries, while the poet delights us by the very question...

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To find by reasoning or by experience, here is science; to feel or sense by the help of imagination is the highest poetry…

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Science and especially philosophy will always remain poetic first through the feeling of the great things known, of the great open horizons, then through the presentiment of the greater things that remain unknown, of the infinite horizons that only allow us to glimpse their beginnings in a semi-obscurity... Moreover, the inspirations from science and philosophy are at the same time always old and always renewed...