Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Maurice Barres

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French novelist Maurice Barres.
Last updated on December 24, 2024.
Maurice Barres

Auguste-Maurice Barrès was a French novelist, journalist and politician. Spending some time in Italy, he became a figure in French literature with the release of his work The Cult of the Self in 1888. In politics, he was first elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1889 as a Boulangist and would play a prominent political role for the rest of his life.

We find in biking the fullfilment of an antique instinct: vagabondage — © Maurice Barres
We find in biking the fullfilment of an antique instinct: vagabondage
It is not reason that gives us our moral orientation, it is sensitivity.
The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does.
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