30 Quotes by Ernest Dimnet

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

A school is a place through which you have to pass before entering life, but where the teaching proper does not prepare you for life.

Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name

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

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

Every now and then we discover in the seething mass of humanity round us a person who does not seem to need anybody else, and the contrast with ourselves is stinging.

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

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.

Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us the model of how we should always read. Plodding along page after page with an equal attention to each word results in attention to mere words.