Emile Chartier Quotes

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• Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.
• Pessimism comes from the temperament, optimism from the will.
• Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat.
• We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.
• Every idea I get I have to deny, that's my way of testing it.
• 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…
• There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.
• To think is to say no.
• The most difficult thing in the world is to say thinkingly what everybody says without thinking.
• If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true.
• 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…

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