Quotes by french authors

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it. Pierre Bonnard

Quality Design Add Pleasant Color Does

The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing. Pierre Bonnard

Brainy Seeing Takes Naming Precision Uniqueness Away

To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred. Pierre Corneille

Revenge Hatred Crown Take Disaster Court Condemn Either Your

I give the name of cosmic sense to the more or less confused affinity that binds us psychologically to the All which envelops us. The existence of this feeling is indubitable, and apparently as old as the beginning of thought... The cosmic sense must have been born as soon as man found himself facing the forest, the sea and the stars. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Man Confused Old Thought Feeling Beginning Sense Stars Must Born Cosmic Give More More Or Less Facing Soon Name Himself Been Existence Affinity Forest Psychologically Which Us Sea Less Apparently Binds Found

Death surrenders us totally to God: it makes us enter into him; we must, in return, surrender ourselves to death with absolute love and self-abandonment since, when death comes, all we can do is to surrender ourselves completely to the domination and guidance of God. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Love Death God Surrender Guidance Enter Ourselves Must Totally Absolute Since Him Return Makes Domination Us

Christ has conquered death, not only by suppressing its evil effects, but by reversing its sting. By virtue of Christ's rising again, nothing any longer kills inevitably, but everything is capable of becoming the blessed touch of the divine hands, the blessed influence of the will of God upon our lives. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Death God Christ Will Evil Blessed Nothing Virtue Our Everything Our Lives Touch Rising Only Divine Longer Suppressing Becoming Inevitably Reversing Sting Effects Hands Any Influence Again Capable Conquered Lives

Death is acceptable only if it represents the physically necessary passage toward a union, the condition of a metamorphosis. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Death Only Physically Toward Acceptable Passage Condition Represents Union Necessary

When the whole world is globalized, you're going to be able to set fire to the whole thing with a single match. Rene Girard

You World Fire Single Able Match Going Whole Thing Set

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness. Sacha Guitry

Wisdom Experience Our Foolishness

Every day you must arise and say to your heart, I have suffered enough and now I must live because the light of the sun must not be wasted, it must not be lost without an eye to appreciate it. Simone Schwarz-Bart

Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat. Simone Weil

Conflict Cause More Likely Than Wheat International Petroleum

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link. Simone Weil

This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate. Simone de Beauvoir

Man World Adequate Seemed None Always Been Offered Explanation Reasons

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills. Simone de Beauvoir

Life Man Animal Humanity Sex Giving Has-Been Above Superiority Risking Been Accorded Which Forth Why Brings Raised

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap. Simone de Beauvoir

Rejection Prolonged Thrown Retirement Looked May Being Either Holiday

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it. Stendhal

Pleasure Spoiled Often Describing

One way to have broader access to wealth is to reduce the tax on the large group and increase the tax on the very top so concentration of wealth doesn't get to extreme levels. Thomas Piketty

Wealth Group Increase Extreme Top Way Broader One-Way Concentration Access Reduce Very Get Tax Large Large Group Levels

I liked to play dress-up. Vanessa Paradis

Dress-Up Liked Play

Every diminution of the liberty of the press is followed by a diminution of civilization. Wherever we see the freedom of the press interfered with, there we see the nutrition of the human family interrupted. Victor Hugo

Freedom Family Liberty Every Nutrition Press Diminution See Followed Civilization Human Wherever Human Family Interfered Interrupted