It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree. -Charles Baudelaire

 

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.


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This quote is just one of 17 total Charles Baudelaire quotes in our collection. Charles Baudelaire is known for saying 'It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.' as well as some of the following quotes.

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

Charles Baudelaire
296

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

Charles Baudelaire
246
It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist. -Charles Baudelaire
236

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.

Charles Baudelaire
230

Always be a poet, even in prose.

Charles Baudelaire
217
Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry. -Charles Baudelaire
216

A breath of wind from the wings of madness.

Charles Baudelaire
213