Share this sentence
— Joseph Joubert"Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity."
Related information
Discover more quotes
Previous Quote
My garden does not whet the appetite; it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes it by proffering its natural remedy. Amid such pleasures as these have I grown old.
— Epicurus
Next Quote
In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have consumed, and we have not been enlarged by the feasts but only diminished.
— Pico Iyer
Loading recommended content...