Émile-Auguste Chartier: Frases em inglês (página 2)

Frases em inglês.
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“Obligation spoils everything.”

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Happy New Year
Alain On Happiness (1928)

“Each one gave the other the only assistance one man can expect from another: that his friend support him and ask only that he remain himself. It is no great accomplishment to take people as they are, and we must always do so eventually, but to wish them to be as they are, that is a genuine love.”

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Poets
Alain On Happiness (1928)

“Thought is saying no, and it is to itself that thought says no.”

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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.

“Never be insolent unless it is a deliberate decision, and only toward a man more powerful than yourself.”

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Giving Pleasure
Alain On Happiness (1928)

“If religion is only human, and its form is man’s form, it follows that everything in religion is true.”

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Introduction
The Gods (1934)

“We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.”

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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.

“An author of antiquity said that every event has two handles, and that, in order to carry it, there is no sense in choosing the one that hurts the hand.”

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In The Rain
Alain On Happiness (1928)

“Certainly thinking is pleasant, but the pleasure of thinking must be subordinated to the art of making decisions.”

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Ceremonies
Alain On Happiness (1928)

“It is very true that we ought to think of the happiness of others; but it is not often enough said that the best thing we can do for those who love us is to be happy ourselves.”

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Happiness if Generous
Alain On Happiness (1928)

“We must clear away, simplify, eradicate.”

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The Prophetic Soul
Alain On Happiness (1928)

“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.”

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Introduction
The Gods (1934)

“As opposed to the incoherent spectacle of the world, the real is what is expected, what is obtained and what is discovered by our own movement. It is what is sensed as being within our own power and always responsive to our action.”

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Book I, ch. 3
The Gods (1934)

“In short, the anomaly of war is that the best men get themselves killed while crafty men find their chance to govern in a manner contrary to justice.”

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Egoists
Alain On Happiness (1928)