Malcolm de Chazal quotes
Malcolm de Chazal was a Mauritian writer, painter, and visionary thinker known for his unique literary and artistic style. His works often combined poetic insight with philosophical reflections on nature and humanity. He became an influential figure in Mauritian culture and left a lasting legacy in both literature and the arts. Here are 29 of his quotes:
Nothing is more certain than that war promotes science and increases comforts. Utopia may mean no more wars, but universal peace and plenty will never reign until at least one more war raises mankind to a plane of such comfort and ease that nobody on either side of a frontier can even imagine the possibility of resorting to arms. Comfort creates wars and comfort may someday end them.
Malcolm de Chazal
The diamond scintillates less brilliantly when the fingers move rapidly than when they undulate and pivot. Glossy leaves throw off less light in a high wind than under the calm wavering of a breeze. Brusque movements of the eye cast a single gleam, and slow movements add a thousand others.
Malcolm de Chazal
The light would reach us more quickly in the morning and fade more slowly at night if the whole earth were divided into vast flower beds that called forth the light at dawn and clutched it longer at nightfall. Nature instituted summer for flowers long before man took summer over for his own uses.
Malcolm de Chazal
Malcolm de Chazal
Occupation: French WriterBorn: September 12, 1902
Died: October 1, 1981
Quotes count: 29
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