Émile Chartier cytaty

Émile Chartier zwany Alain – francuski filozof, dziennikarz oraz pacyfista.

Chartier urodził się w 1868 roku w Mortagne-au-Perche. W 1881 rozpoczął pięcioletnią naukę w liceum, d'Alençon. W 1956 roku na cześć wybitnego absolwenta liceum przyjęło jego imię do swojej nazwy.

W 1886 roku zdał maturę i rozpoczął studia na École normale supérieure na wydziale filozofii. Po zakończeniu studiów pracował jako nauczyciel filozofii w Paryżu, Rouen oraz Lorient. Od 1903 roku pracował jako dziennikarz używając pseudonimu Alain.

W 1909 roku został mianowany na funkcję profesora w paryskim Liceum Henryka IV. Jego nauki wywarły dużych wpływ na takich uczniów jak Raymond Aron, Simone Weil, Georges Canguilhem oraz André Maurois.

Émile Chartier zmarł w Le Vésinet w 1951 roku w wieku 83 lat. Wikipedia  

✵ 3. Marzec 1868 – 2. Czerwiec 1951
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Émile Chartier słynne cytaty

„Nic bardziej niebezpiecznego niż idea, jeśli ma się tylko jedną ideę.”

Źródło: Propos sur la religion, 1938

Émile Chartier: Cytaty po angielsku

“Man himself is an enigma in motion”

Introduction
The Gods (1934)
Kontekst: 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.

“Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you have only one idea.”

Propos sur le Religion no. 74 (1938), under the pen name Alain.
Alternate translation: “Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it's the only one we have.” IZQuotes https://izquotes.com/quote/%C3%A9mile-chartier/nothing-is-more-dangerous-than-an-idea-when-you-have-only-one-idea-390165 (retrieved 10/30/18).

“Any kind of barbarism, once established, will last.”

Men of Action
Alain On Happiness (1928)

“Every boat is copied from another boat…”

Propos d’un Normand (1908); as quoted in "Natural selection and cultural rates of change" by D. S. Rogers and P. R. Ehrlich (2008) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105:3416–3420
Kontekst: Every boat is copied from another boat... Let’s reason as follows in the manner of Darwin. It is clear that a very badly made boat will end up at the bottom after one or two voyages, and thus never be copied... One could then say, with complete rigor, that it is the sea herself who fashions the boats, choosing those which function and destroying the others.

“One must preach life, not death; spread hope, not fear and cultivate joy, man's most valuable treasure. That is the secret of the greatest of the wise, and it wil be the light of tomorrow.”

On Pity
Alain On Happiness (1928)
Kontekst: One must preach life, not death; spread hope, not fear and cultivate joy, man's most valuable treasure. That is the secret of the greatest of the wise, and it wil be the light of tomorrow. Passions are sad. Hatred is sad. Joy destroys passions and hatred. Let us begin by telling ourselves that sadness is never noble, beautiful or useful.

“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.”

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

“Obligation spoils everything.”

Happy New Year
Alain On Happiness (1928)

“Thought is saying no, and it is to itself that thought says no.”

Propos sur la religion [Remarks on religion] (1924)
Le Citoyen contre les Pouvoirs [The Citizen against the Powers] (1926)
Wariant: To think is to say no.

“We prove what we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.”

On prouve tout ce qu'on veut, et la vraie difficulté est de savoir ce qu'on veut prouver.
Système des Beaux-Arts (1920), as quoted in The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time (In Two Lines or Less) by John M. Shanahan, p. 34
Variant translation: We prove anything we want to prove, and the real difficulty is to know what we want to prove.