Gabriel Marcel Quotes

The greatest merit of the critical spirit is that it tends to cure fanaticism, and it is logical enough that in our own fanatical times the critical spirit should tend to disappear.

Gabriel Marcel

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• While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • People
  • motivation
  • Revenge

• Who said that artists should sell their soul, expose everything about themselves?

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Soul
  • Said
  • Everything

• We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Up
  • Going
  • Go

• Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Real
  • Money
  • Inside

• We are a studying nation. Scholarship from science is important to the whole world and those people need to be able to be safe and secure in what they do.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• As soon as it was clear, in Copenhagen in 2009, that the Senate was blocking Obama from introducing meaningful climate legislation, the push was for him to use executive authority, use the EPA, use the tool of federal leases, and there was just a refusal to do it.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Meaningful
  • Authority
  • Him

• My musical career was an accident.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Career
  • Musical
  • Accident

• After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
  • City
  • First
  • Academic

• People who work every day are kind of scared of things they don't understand.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • People
  • Work
  • Day

• Acting is a really strange thing to do; it's very strange.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Acting
  • Strange
  • Very

• That which I have set out in Latin is not my words but the words of God and of apostles and prophets, who of course have never lied. He who believes shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be damned. God has spoken.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • God
  • Believe
  • Words

• When I came into the gym, I wasn't just some guy. I was a two-time Olympian.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Gym

• If I felt that one of my operas did not come off I would certainly say so.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Say
  • Felt
  • Did

• I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Week

• If you want to make a movie, there may be many forces trying to pull you down, but really, a lot of it is will power. You can will it into being if you just believe that you are going to make a movie.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • May

• For my part, I assure you, I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

  

  Alexander the Great
  • Power
  • Knowledge

• They tried to make me go to RehabI said no, no, noYes, I've been black, but when I come backYou'll know, know, know!I ain’t got the time,And if my daddy thinks I'm fineJust try to make me go to rehabI won't go, go, go.

  

  Amy Winehouse
  • Time
  • Black

• I am quite sure that in the hereafter she will take me by the hand and lead me to my proper seat.

  

  Bernard Baruch
  • She
  • Hand

• I was born in Dallas, and I grew up both there and in New York City, which was very schizophrenic.

  

  Lesli Linka Glatter
  • Up
  • City

• When I was really young, I had an afro and wore pressed jeans and argyle sweaters. In my teens, I moved on to ripped Levi's jeans, white T-shirts, and cowboy boots.

  

  Edward Enninful
  • Cowboy

• I put a lot of pressure on myself and I think I am quite... well, intense about driving other people.

  

  Matthew Fox
  • People
  • Driving

• The greatest merit of the critical spirit is that it tends to cure fanaticism, and it is logical enough that in our own fanatical times the critical spirit should tend to disappear.

  

  Gabriel Marcel