Emile Chartier quotes
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“Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.”
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“If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true.”
-- Emile ChartierSource : "The Gods". Book by Emile Chartier, 1934.
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“The most difficult thing in the world is to say thinkingly what everybody says without thinking.”
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“There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.”
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“When we speak, in gestures or signs, we fashion a real object in the world; the gesture is seen, the words and the song are heard. The arts are simply a kind of writing, which, in one way or another, fixes words or gestures, and gives body to the invisible.”
-- Emile ChartierSource : "The Gods". Book by Emile Chartier, 1934.
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“Every idea I get I have to deny, that's my way of testing it.”
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“We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.”
-- Emile ChartierSource : "The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time". Book by John M. Shanahan, September 1909.
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“Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat.”
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“Pessimism comes from the temperament, optimism from the will.”
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“One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.”
-- Emile Chartier
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