Par Excellence Quotes
28 quotes by 25 authors
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Advent is the spiritual season of hope par excellence, and in this season the whole Church is called to be hope, for itself and for…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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There can be no other criterion, no other standard than gold. Yes, gold which never changes, which can be shaped into ingots, bars, coins, which…
— Charles de Gaulle
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The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young…
— Jacques Barzun
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Because of its independence of surface limitations and its superior speed the airplane is the offensive weapon par excellence.
— Giulio Douhet
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We become new if we let ourselves be grasped and shaped by the new Man, Jesus Christ. He is the new Man par excellence. In…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Love remains a relation with the Other that turns into need, transcendent exteriority of the other, of the beloved. But love goes beyond the beloved...…
— Emmanuel Levinas
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Mathematics, the non-empirical science par excellence . . . the science of sciences, delivering the key to those laws of nature and the universe which…
— Hannah Arendt
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There is one act par excellence which profanes money by going directly against the law of money, an act for which money is not made.…
— Jacques Ellul
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Life is teleology par excellence; it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed aims which seek…
— Carl Jung
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A combination of the qualities of the scholar, the master cook, the painter, the gastronomer, the sportsman and the pantologist, assisted by the skill of…
— George Ellwanger
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You don't have to be really good anymore to get good results. What's happening with Chess is that it's gradually losing its place as the…
— Hans Berliner
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The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will... An education which…
— William James
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The vicarious responsibility for things we have not done, this taking upon ourselves the consequences for things we are entirely innocent of, is the price…
— Hannah
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Whoever entered the political realm had first to be ready to risk his life, and too great a love for life obstructed freedom, was a…
— Hannah
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
— William James
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The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.
— Berenice Abbott
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Light is the photographic medium par excellence; it is to the photographer what words are to the writer; color and paint to the painter; wood,…
— Andreas Feininger
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The first who attracts the eye, the first in enlightenment, in power and in happiness, is the white man, the European, man par excellence; below…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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We see the Jew, then, in business, as promoter, money-lender, salesman par excellence, the author and chief instigator of a system of credit by which…
— Samuel Roth
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The media and their journalists are merely megaphones for stupidity, the verb par excellence.
— William C. Brown
Who Wrote These Par Excellence Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 28 Par Excellence Quotes as follows: