There is iconoclasm in the excessively intellectual, and they delight in destroying their dearest moral or sentimental idols, the better to prove their strength.
Paul Bourget (1852–1935) French critic, poet, novelist
Cosmopolis, ch. 4 “Approaching Danger” (1892)
Quotations by:
Bourget, Paul
There are conditions of blindness so voluntary that they become complicity.
We must live as we think, otherwise we shall end up by thinking as we live.
[Cet enseignement, c’est qu’il faut vivre comme on pense, sinon, tôt ou tard, on finit par penser comme on a vécu.]
Paul Bourget (1852–1935) French critic, poet, novelist
The Demon of Noonday [Le Démon de Midi], Epilogue (1914)
Other translations: "This teaching is to live as we think, otherwise, sooner or later, we end up thinking as we lived."