Raymond Aron Quotes

Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme.

Raymond Aron

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• The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Challenges
  • Leader
  • Manager

• The mind is a monkey, hopping around from thought to thought, image to image. Rarely do more than a few seconds go by in which the mind can remain single-pointed, empty.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Mind
  • Single
  • Thought

• When I was young, I didn't want to do traditional painting and calligraphy. I deliberately wanted to separate from my father so I could feel I existed myself.

  

  Cai Guo-Qiang
  • Father
  • Myself
  • Painting

• If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Up
  • Been
  • Line

• A soccer game is a Wagner opera. The narrative sets up, the tension builds, the music ebbs and flows, the strings, the horns, more tension, and suddenly a moment of pure bliss, trumpet-tongued Gabriel sings, and gods descend from Olympus to dance - this peak of ecstasy.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Up
  • Music
  • Game

• You always have to think in a new modern way, and you always have to push yourself in fashion because it's a big treadmill. You can't really get off it. You just have to move a little faster.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Think
  • Fashion
  • Yourself

• When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.

  

  Ice T
  • Business
  • Start
  • Fruit

• Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Home
  • Myself
  • Boy

• It's interesting to see how some of the womenswear designers that we have long worked with at Net-A-Porter are developing menswear collections - Christopher Kane, Jonathan Saunders and Richard Nicoll.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Long
  • Interesting
  • See

• The genius of vinyl is that it allows - commands! - us to put our fingerprints all over that history: to blend and chop and reconfigure it, mock and muse upon it, backspin and skip through it.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • History
  • Genius
  • Vinyl

• If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a great talent grow.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Great
  • Country
  • Opportunity

• I really think that I don't mind people sleeping during my films, because I know that some very good films might prepare you for sleeping or falling asleep or snoozing. It's not to be taken badly at all. This is something I really mean.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • People
  • Good
  • Mind

• I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Music
  • Piano
  • Got

• My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Mother
  • Fail
  • Insist

• Then as now, evil begins its courtship cloaked in light. And the heart embraces what is should flee. Forgetting it once had a true lover. Love will prove greater than lust. Sacrifice will overcome seduction. And blood will flow.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Heart
  • True
  • Light

• What's amazing about a DJ set is when you're able to re-appropriate a song or give purpose to a song that people didn't really think it was supposed to have. Give it this sort of hidden power by playing it before this song and after that one. That it fits into this logic and it goes farther than you thought it could go.

  

  Alain Macklovitch
  • People
  • Power
  • Song

• If you are walking with Jesus, in the Spirit, you need not fear going too far. No believer has gone as far as God wants him to go

  

  Asa Alonso Allen
  • God
  • Fear
  • Jesus

• I write to please myself—of course, that is a given. But beyond this reach for pleasure, I know that I write for my countrymen, that they may be lifted from apathy and ignorance. I write because of a compulsion to make something out of the nothing that is my own life.

  

  F. Sionil José
  • Life
  • May
  • Ignorance

• My dear, In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I found there was, within me, an invincible smile. In the midst of chaos, I found there was, within me, an invincible calm. I realized, through it all, that… In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back. Truly yours, Albert Camus

  

  Albert Camus
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Tears

• People love nobody as much as they do their hatred.

  

  Adolfo Bioy Casares
  • People
  • Hatred

• I think that right now, the global political crisis that we see all over the place has to do with virulent nostalgia. Everywhere, people are talking about taking us back to the good old days. Whether that's the "caliphate," or Britain before the EU, or "Make America Great Again." But, we can't go back and many people wouldn't want to go back even if we could.

  

  Mohsin Hamid
  • People
  • Talking
  • Nostalgia

• The establishment of Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • World
  • Islamic
  • Move

• Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme.

  

  Raymond Aron
  • Chance
  • Events
  • Nostalgia