Par Excellence Quotes

28 quotes by 25 authors

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
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
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
Because of its independence of surface limitations and its superior speed the airplane is the offensive weapon par excellence. — Giulio Douhet
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The education of attention would be an education par excellence — William James
The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past. — Berenice Abbott
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
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
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
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: