“Obligation spoils everything.”
Happy New Year
Alain On Happiness (1928)
Émile-Auguste Chartier: Frases em inglês
Frases em inglês.Émile-Auguste Chartier: 140 citações13 Curtidas
“Untie, liberate, and do not be afraid. He who is free is disarmed.”
Poets
Alain On Happiness (1928)
Poets
Alain On Happiness (1928)
“Thought is saying no, and it is to itself that thought says no.”
Propos sur la religion [Remarks on religion] (1924)
Le Citoyen contre les Pouvoirs [The Citizen against the Powers] (1926)
Variante: To think is to say no.
Giving Pleasure
Alain On Happiness (1928)
“We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.”
On prouve tout ce qu'on veut, et la vraie difficulté est de savoir ce qu'on veut prouver.
Système des Beaux-Arts (1920), as quoted in The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time (In Two Lines or Less) by John M. Shanahan, p. 34
Variant translation: We prove anything we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.
Ceremonies
Alain On Happiness (1928)
“We must clear away, simplify, eradicate.”
The Prophetic Soul
Alain On Happiness (1928)
“When the pack is out hunting, the dogs do not fight among themselves.”
One Must Vow
Alain On Happiness (1928)