Emile Chartier Quotes

It is the human condition to question one god after another, one appearance after another, or better, one apparition after another, always pursuing the truth of the imagination, which is not the same as the truth of appearance.

Emile Chartier

• God
• Truth
• Imagination
• Human Condition
• Apparitions

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• We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.

  

  Arthur Daniel Miller
  • Think
  • Physical
  • Heritage

• Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Free
  • Wish
  • Crazy

• One reason why so little is known about the German resistance is because it was never a united movement in the way that it was in France or Poland. It was simply too dangerous.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Why
  • Never
  • German

• I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.

  

  Action Bronson
  • You
  • Like
  • Without

• Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • American
  • Leadership
  • Move

• The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Funny
  • Place
  • First

• What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • People
  • World
  • Bad

• I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Think
  • Storytelling

• The biggest thing for me with charity is awareness. Obviously as an athlete, I have an opportunity to make people more aware. The average person doesn't have that opportunity, so the best way is to spare some money, clothing, food - something. Most of us have a little excess of something that we can give.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • People
  • Money
  • Opportunity

• I remember being in tears at the hospital after Chloe was born, at the thought that someday she would have to leave home.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Home
  • She
  • Remember

• Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Energy
  • Yourself
  • Boat

• Act so that the effects of your actions are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Life
  • Human
  • Act

• Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas, but things of the heart.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • Heart
  • Ideas
  • Film

• Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Nice
  • Rock
  • Waiting

• He got his mean streak from the gutterGot his kindness from God

  

  Laura Nyro
  • God
  • Kindness

• The force that makes the winter grow Its feathered hexagons of snow, and drives the bee to match at home Their calculated honeycomb, Is abacus and rose combined.An icy sweetness fills my mind, A sense that under thing and wing Lies, taut yet living, coiled, the spring.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Mind
  • Home
  • Lies

• We have, as a result of two thousand years of Christianity, sex on the brain. Which isn't always the best place for it.

  

  Alan Watts
  • Brain
  • Sex

• I think there are a lot of great ideas out in America, and I want you to have a say in your government. And that means we have to get unaccountable money out of our politics, overturn Citizens United, and expand voting rights, not restrict them.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Great
  • Money
  • America

• I once thought that if I could ask God one question, I would ask how the universe began, because once I knew that, all the rest is simply equations. But as I got older I became less concerned with how the universe began. Rather, I would want to know why he started the universe. For once I knew that answer, then I would know the purpose of my own life.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • God
  • Universe

• I raised my arms as if in prayer and heard the mutter of response behind me. Then I scattered the dried grains, red and brown and black, and studied the patterns they formed on the stone ledge before Sibbos. This is not such a mystic thing. You see what it is sensible to see, or else you interpret what you see so that the meaning comes out as you want it.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Black
  • Prayer
  • Red

• I've always tried to stay away from playing Jews. I get like 20 Holocaust scripts a month, but I hate the genre.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Jews
  • Scripts
  • I Hate

• There's no use in weeping, Though we are condemned to part: There's such a thing as keeping, A remembrance in one's heart.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Heart
  • Remembrance

• Order is the key to all problems.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Problems
  • Order
  • Key

• It is the human condition to question one god after another, one appearance after another, or better, one apparition after another, always pursuing the truth of the imagination, which is not the same as the truth of appearance.

  

  Emile Chartier
  • God
  • Truth
  • Imagination