"Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" Quotes
A professor, his servant, and a whaler are held captive on a futuristic submarine and explore the wonders of the ocean.
classics | 394 pages | Published in 1970
Quotes
The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the 'Living Infinite,' as one of your poets has said.
The ocean is an immense desert, where man is never lonely; for he feels life stirring on all sides.
Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?
The earth does not want new continents, but new men.
One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
All the strength of man comes from his faith in things unseen. All the strength of hydraulics is in the pressure of water, and all the strength of this ship comes from the faith we have in it.
