Alain: Quotes about people

Alain was French philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on people.

Alain: 70 quotes 6 likes

“Politeness is for people toward whom we feel indifferent, and moods, both good and bad, are for those we love.”

Alain

Domestic Tranquility
Alain On Happiness (1928)

Love , People , Feeling , Mood

“Everybody continually tries to get away with as much as he can; and society is a marvelous machine which allows decent people to be cruel without realizing it.”

Alain

Attitudes Toward Neighbors
Alain On Happiness (1928)

People

“When people ask me if the division between parties of the right and parties of the left, men of the right and men of the left, still makes sense, the first thing that comes to mind is that the person asking the question is certainly not a man of the left.”

Alain

Statement of 1931, as quoted by Marcel Gauchet, Realms of Memory: Rethinking the French Past, Vol. 1 - Conflicts and Divisions, edited by Pierre Nora and Lawrence Kritzman, p. 266 ISBN 9780231084048

Men , People , Question , Sense

“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.”

Alain

Poets
Alain On Happiness (1928)

Love , People , Support