“Les utopies ne sont souvent que des vérités prématurées.” — Alphonse de Lamartine | V2Melody

“Les utopies ne sont souvent que des vérités prématurées.”

Defending idealism as a vision that may simply be ahead of its time · Political speech

Alphonse de Lamartine

About Alphonse de Lamartine

Alphonse de Lamartine

21 October 1790–1 March 1869

Alphonse de Lamartine was born on 21 October 1790 in Mâcon, in the Burgundy region of eastern France, and died in Paris on 1 March 1869. Poet, novelist, historian, diplomat, parliamentarian, and revolutionary statesman, he lived at the point where literary Romanticism and modern French political life came into being…

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“On n'a pas deux cœurs, un pour les animaux et un pour les hommes. On a un cœur ou on n'en a pas.”

Expressing compassion as an indivisible moral principle · Public speech

Love
Truth

“La poésie est le langage naturel de tous les cultes, et la forme même de la prière.”

Linking poetic expression with worship and spiritual feeling · Essay on the destinies of poetry

“La France est une nation qui s'ennuie.”

A concise diagnosis of the political and social stagnation preceding revolution · Speech in the Chamber of Deputies