It is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an art but which plagiarizes nature by means of optics. (1848) Alphonse de Lamartine More Quotes by Alphonse de Lamartine More Quotes From Alphonse de Lamartine Fiction is the microscope of truth. Alphonse de Lamartine microscopes fiction Man is God by his faculty for thought. Alphonse de Lamartine faculty divinity men I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth. Alphonse de Lamartine truth country thinking When a dog is in your life, there is always a reason to laugh. Alphonse de Lamartine dog reason laughing If they say "you have your last chance to look at the world", I wish that look would from Çamlıca of Istanbul. Alphonse de Lamartine istanbul wish looks ...to kill animals for the purpose of feeding on their flesh is one of the most deplorable and shameful infirmities of the human state Alphonse de Lamartine purpose flesh animal Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive. Alphonse de Lamartine firefighter race hero True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime. Alphonse de Lamartine fruit lifetime love Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never. Alphonse de Lamartine tire passion Man, man, is thy brother, and thy father is God. Alphonse de Lamartine brother men father Habit with it's iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day. Alphonse de Lamartine iron habit Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination. Alphonse de Lamartine sentiments imagination Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth. Alphonse de Lamartine reading truth country Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask. Alphonse de Lamartine chance should giving Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time. Alphonse de Lamartine passing hours enjoy I say to this night: "Pass more slowly"; and the dawn will come to dispel the night. Alphonse de Lamartine dawn night Ink is the transcript of thought. Alphonse de Lamartine ink The People will not allow themselves to be changed into hogs by the Circes of Atheism. Their souls will flash indignation against their transformers. A day will come when they will see that they are impoverished under the pretext of being enriched; that, when they are robbed of their souls and of God, both their titles to liberty are stolen from them. Alphonse de Lamartine atheism soul people The attractiveness that exists to man in the very helplessness of woman is scarcely realized. Alphonse de Lamartine attractiveness weakness men Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions. Alphonse de Lamartine applause silence real