All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
– Ernest Dimnet
Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.
– Ernest Dimnet
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
– Ernest Dimnet
Ideas are the root of creation.
– Ernest Dimnet
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.
– Ernest Dimnet
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
– Ernest Dimnet
The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
– Ernest Dimnet
Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places.
– Ernest Dimnet
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.