Emile Chartier Quotes
There is a future that makes itself and a future we make. The real future is composed of both.
The most difficult thing in the world is to say thinkingly what everybody says without thinking.
One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.
What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.
People who are upset about something ruminate on it whenever they get a chance; they are constantly drawn back to their own unhappy tale as if it were a horror story left open on a table.
We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.
Wouldn't a sailor laugh at you if you told him that the whole crossing depends on the first turn of the helm?
If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true.
