Chartier Quotes & Sayings

The aim of education is growth: the aim of growth is more growth — John Dewey

What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns. — Emile Chartier

There are too many games being developed by people that have no business creating games. — John Romero

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have. — Emile Chartier

There is a future that makes itself and a future we make. The real future is composed of both. — Emile Chartier

It is those who are different that make the biggest difference in the world. — Shana Chartier

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. — Emile Chartier

We want to enable Start-Ups and make India no 1 in this field. Start-Up India and Stand-Up India! — Narendra Modi

There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them. — Emile Chartier

Profound sadness is always the result of an unhealthy condition of the body ... We [should] say, 'I am sad; everything looks black to me; but external events are in no way responsible. It's my body that insists on reasoning. These are the opinions of my stomach.' — Emile Chartier

If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true. — Emile Chartier

Prof. Gerd Gleixner said " Lailah recommend that you work every morning on the dissertation in order to meet the deadline. There are only 4 weeks . — Lailah Gifty Akita

I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time at university. And I started to notice then how unresolved some things were. Later, I realised that Stevenson was interested in sequels, and I wondered whether he would have gone back to it had he lived longer. — Andrew Motion

We must recognize the eloquence of our passions and refuse to be taken in. Instead of saying, 'That false friend always did despise me,' say: 'In my present state of agitation, I can't see clearly, I can't judge clearly; I am only a tragic actor who is declaiming for his own ears.' Then you will see the lights in the theater go out for lack of an audience, and the brilliant sets will be nothing more than painted cardboard. — Emile Chartier

Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat. — Emile Chartier

You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life. — Chogyam Trungpa

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. — Emile Chartier

If only humans could die like the autumn leaves, with a splash of beauty and the promise of another season. — Shana Chartier

In World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one allied soldier for every twenty inhabitants. The ratio in Iraq is about one for a hundred and sixty. — William Odom

It is not difficult to be unhappy or discontented; all you have to do is sit down, like a prince waiting to be amused ... It is impossible to be happy if one does not have the desire to be happy; one must therefore will one's happiness, and create it. — Emile Chartier

It's a good thing he broke up with you because now you're free for when the right man finds you. Your prince is on his way."
"Right. I'm sure he was on his way but a truck hit him. — Jennifer Crusie

I believe that my theory is correct; for whatever be the question upon which I am arguing, whether it be religious, philosophical, political, or economical; whether it affects well-being, morality, equality, right, justice, progress, responsibility, property, labor, exchange, capital, wages, taxes, population, credit, or Government; at whatever point of the scientific horizon I start from, I invariably come to the same thing - the solution of the social problem is in liberty. — Frederic Bastiat

We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove. — Emile Chartier

Every idea I get I have to deny, that's my way of testing it. — Emile Chartier

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 are simply a kind of writing, which, in one way or another, fixes words or gestures, and gives body to the invisible. — Emile Chartier

Wouldn't a sailor laugh at you if you told him that the whole crossing depends on the first turn of the helm? — Emile Chartier

I have only one thing to say to the melancholy man: 'Look into the distance.' ... When you look at the stars or the ocean's expanse, your eye is completely relaxed; once your eye is relaxed, your mind is unfettered. — Emile Chartier

It's best to keep acting real. — Liam Neeson

It is not a problem of the market form but of markets deformed - deformed by the long shadow of historical injustices and the ongoing, continuous exercise of legal privilege on behalf of capital. The market anarchist tradition is radically pro-market and anticapitalist - reflecting its consistent concern with the deeply political character of corporate power, the dependence of economic elites on the tolerance or active support of the state, the permeable barriers between political and economic elites, and the cultural embeddedness of hierarchies established and maintained by state-perpetrated and state-sanctioned violence. — Gary Chartier

Twelve hours of work and I still can't sleep.Days go on and on... They don't end. — Paul Schrader

Someone needs to buy a radio station, then play nothing but audio books, with a different genre of book played at set times. That way we can always have something new to read, no matter where we are. — Shana Chartier

Even on the silent days, believe your ship will come. — Shana Chartier

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. — Emile Chartier

Man himself is an enigma in motion; his questions never stay asked; whereas the mold, the footprint, and by natural extension, the statue itself, like the vaults, the arches, the temples with which man records his own passing, remain immobile and fix a moment of man's life, upon which one might endlessly meditate. — Emile Chartier

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. — Emile Chartier

So are you saying I'm your Superman?"

--- Josh Copeland — Dawn Chartier

To think is to say no. — Emile Chartier

Leave your broom at the door... — Dawn Chartier

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr. — Saint Augustine

I turn you out of doors tenant desire you pay no rent I turn you out of doors all my best rooms are yours the brain and heart depart I turn you out of doors switch off the lights throw water on the fire I turn you out of doors stubborn desire. — Alain Chartier

Man improves himself as he follows his path; if he stands still, waiting to improve before he makes a decision, he'll never move. — Paulo Coelho