Translation: I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. - Hippolyte Taine

J'ai beaucoup étudié les philosophes et les chats. La sagesse des chats est infiniment supérieure.

The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.

One puts in the hands of each adult a ballot, but on the back of each soldier a knapsack: with what promises of massacre and bankruptcy for the Twentieth Century, with what exasperation of ill will and distrust, with what loss of wholesome effort, by what a perversion of productive discoveries, accompanied by what an improvement in the means of destruction, by what recoil toward the inferior and unhealthy forms of the old combative societies, by what a backward step toward egoistic and brutal instincts, toward the sentiments, manner and morality of ancient cities and barbaric tribes, we know all too well.