Agénor de Gasparin

thumb| Agénor Étienne, comte de Gasparin (12 July 1810 – 4 May 1871) was a French statesman and author. He was also an early psychical researcher known for conducting experiments into table-tipping. Attributed A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom and Wickedness (1902) Quotes reported in: J. de Finod, A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom and Wickedness (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1902) Intellectual progress, separated from moral progress, gives a fearful result: a being possessing nothing but brains. p. 131 Don Quixote is, after all, the defender of the oppressed, the champion of lost causes, and the man of noble aberrations. Woe to the centuries without Don Quixotes! Nothing remains to them but Sancho Panzas. p. 146 Our century leans neither toward evil nor toward good: it goes toward mediocrity. p. 156 A brute always imposes silence on the delicate. p. 157 Absolutism is tolerant, only because it knows itself mighty. p. 189 External links Category:1810 births Category:1871 deaths Category:Non-fiction authors from France Category:People from Geneva Category:Theologians from France