Quote #3
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it's the only one we have.
More from Emile Chartier
- We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.
- Every boat is copied from another boat... Let's reason as follows in the manner of Darwin. It is clear that a very badly made boat will end…
- To think is to say no.
- If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true.
- It is the human condition to question one god after another, one appearance after another, or better, one apparition after another, always …
- When we speak, in gestures or signs, we fashion a real object in the world; the gesture is seen, the words and the song are heard. The arts…
- Man himself is an enigma in motion; his questions never stay asked; whereas the mold, the footprint, and by natural extension, the statue i…
- 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 movem…