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Emile Chartier Biography

Émile-Auguste Chartier (French: [ʃaʁtje]; 3 March 1868 – 2 June 1951), commonly known as Alain ([alɛ̃]), was a French philosopher, journalist, and pacifist. He adopted his pseudonym in homage to the 15th-century Norman poet Alain Chartier.

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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.

Brilliant, Clearly, Lack, Light, Passion, Taken

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.

Enigma, Extension, Life, Men, Mold, Temples

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

Thinking, Thinks, Thousand, Time, Yearns, Years

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

Firsts, Helm, Laugh, Laughing, Sailor, Whole

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

Composed, Future, Make, Real

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.

Inspirational, Self Respect, World, Oneself, Rigor, Truthful

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.

Horror Stories, People, Upset, Ruminate, Whenever, Horror

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

Cat, Two, Perfect, World, Clock

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.

Discovered, Movement, Opposed, Real, Sensed, World

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. '

Sadness, Profound, Black, External, Reasoning, Sad

The most difficult thing in the world is to say thinkingly what everybody says without thinking.

Difficult, Everybody, Thinking, Thinkingly, World

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.

Art, Fashion, Kind, Song, Writing

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.

Apparitions, Appearance, Imagination, Pursuing, Same

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