Hippolyte Taine Quotes on Knowledge
Hippolyte Adolphe Taine was a French historian, literary critic, and philosopher and the principal exponent of positivism in nineteenth-century French humanistic scholarship. This page collects quotes attributed to Hippolyte Taine on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Hippolyte Taine:
“Race, milieu, and moment determine the form of every cultural product.”
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Attributed to Hippolyte Taine:
“The historian must approach human facts with the methods of natural science.”
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Attributed to Hippolyte Taine:
“Literature is the documentary expression of an age.”
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Attributed to Hippolyte Taine:
“What we call genius is the convergence of many ordinary forces.”