Anne Louise Germaine de Staël quotes

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering. (Anne Louise Germaine de Staël)
To understand everything makes one very indulgent.
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love. - The shores of existence are strewn with them.
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
The search for the truth is the noblest of occupations, and its publication a duty.
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it. (Anne Louise Germaine de Staël)
A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it.
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible.
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Be happy, but be happy through piety.
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Madame de Staël thought it was pride in mankind to endeavour to penetrate the secret of the universe; and speaking of the higher metaphysics she said: "I prefer the Lord's Prayer to it all."
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Superstition is related to this life, religion to the next; superstition is allied to fatality, religion to virtue; it is by the vivacity of earthly desires that we become superstitious; it is, on the contrary, by the sacrifice of these desires that we become religious. (Anne Louise Germaine de Staël)
You do not reach the sublime by degrees; the distance between it and the merely beautiful is infinite.
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
O Earth! all bathed with blood and tears, yet never Hast thou ceased putting forth thy fruit and flowers.
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Ought not every woman, like every man, to follow the bent of her own talents?
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
Danger is like wine, it goes to your head.
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël