Professor Pierre Aronnax Quotes

The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.

We will die together, friend Ned.

“I am not what you call a civilised man! I have done with society entirely, for reasons which I alone have the right of appreciating. I do not, therefore, obey its laws, and I desire you never to allude to them before me again!”

Nature’s creative power is far beyond man’s instinct of destruction.

“God, if he believed in one—his conscience, if he had one—were the sole judges to whom he was answerable.”

“As to classing it in the list of fables, the idea was out of the question.”

“His countenance had resumed its habitual imperturbability.”

If his destiny be strange, it is also sublime.

[S]team seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.

I thanked Captain Nemo, and went up to the shelves of the library. Works on science, morals, and literature abounded in every language; but I did not see one single work on political economy; that subject appeared to be strictly proscribed. Strange to say, all these books were irregularly arranged, in whatever language they were written; and this medley proved that the Captain of the Nautilus must have read indiscriminately the books which he took up by chance.

However, everything has an end, everything passes away, even the hunger of people who have not eaten for fifteen hours. Our appetites satisfied, we felt overcome with sleep.

May the judge disappear, and the philosopher continue the peaceful exploration of the sea!