Alain: Doing

Alain was French philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on doing.

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“Humanity will have to extricate itself from the bags created by false moralists, according to whom we taste happiness and then pass judgment on it, as if it were a piece of fruit. But I maintain that even for a piece of fruit we can do something to help it taste good. This is even truer of marriage and every other human relationship; these things are not meant to be tasted or passively accepted; they must be made. A relationship is not like a bit of shade where one is comfortable or uncomfortable depending on the weather and the way the wind is blowing. On the contrary, it is a place of miracles, where the magician makes the rain and the good weather.”

On Private Life
Alain On Happiness (1928)

“Our errors perish before we do. Let's not mummify them and keep them around.”

Our Future
Alain On Happiness (1928)

“Aristotle's pupil already realized that we have no power at all over our passions as long as we do not know their true causes. Many men have refuted fear, and with sound arguments. But a man who is afraid does not listen to arguments; he listens to the beating of his heart and the pulsating of his blood.”

Bucephalus
Alain On Happiness (1928)

“Untie, liberate, and do not be afraid. He who is free is disarmed.”

Poets
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.”

Poets
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.”

Happiness if Generous
Alain On Happiness (1928)

“When the pack is out hunting, the dogs do not fight among themselves.”

One Must Vow
Alain On Happiness (1928)