Quotes by french authors

I focus, I invent, I transform, I challenge, I attempt, I observe, I perform. Philippe Petit
Challenge Focus Invent Attempt Observe Perform Transform
I should like to present myself to the young painters of the year 2000 with the wings of a butterfly. Pierre Bonnard
Myself Year Young Wings Like Should Painters Butterfly Present
How can you tell a story with one frame that, by its simplicity, manages to tell a story, a gag that evokes an emotion in you? That became my motto throughout all my life. Simplicity. Pierre Coffin
Life You Simplicity My Life Frame All My Life Tell My Motto Throughout Emotion Became How Motto Gag Story
Force is legitimate where gentleness avails not. Pierre Corneille
Force Gentleness Where Legitimate Avail
I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor. Pierre Corneille
Happiness Honor Will Live Never Forced Without Consent
Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity. Pierre Omidyar
Opportunity Everyone Born Equal Equal Opportunity Equally Lacks Capable
If you can get over this initial distrust that people have of strangers, you can do remarkable things. Pierre Omidyar
You People Strangers Distrust Remarkable Over Get Initial Things
I had the notion that, OK, so now we have all of this wealth, we could buy not only one expensive car, we could buy all of them. As soon as you realize that you could buy all of them, then none of them are particularly interesting or satisfying. Pierre Omidyar
Buy You Wealth Car OK Only Could Had Soon Particularly None Expensive Interesting Them Realize Then Notion Now Satisfying
I developed an interest in supporting independent journalists in a way that leverages their work to the greatest extent possible, all in support of the public interest. Pierre Omidyar
Work Way Independent Possible Developed Support Journalists Supporting Greatest Interest Public Public Interest Extent
My dad was a physician. As a kid, I remember driving around with him on weekends so he could do his rounds at the hospital and talk to patients. We'd spend time in the car talking about what was going on with them, their stories. Pierre Omidyar
Time Remember Car Physician Spend Kid About Could Weekends Hospital Driving He Talk Him Talking Around His Going Patients Stories Them Dad Rounds
Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization. Pierre Schaeffer
Think Civilization Always Barbarians Themselves
Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Man Physics Problem Words First Chemistry Biology Other Cosmic Only He First Of All Understood Geology In Other Words Ascending
Certain though I am - and ever more certain - that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Life Faith Time Me Walk Christ Universe Assurance Press Though Must Seeing Shadows More Feel Term Am Existence Same Same Time Anyone Much Certain Special Ever Believing Imagine
Humanity is still advancing; and it will probably continue to advance for hundreds of thousands of years more, always on condition that we know how to keep the same line of advance as our ancestors towards ever greater consciousness and complexity. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Humanity Will Our Hundreds Hundreds Of Thousands Ancestors Complexity Thousands Thousands Of Years More Advance Advancing Towards Know Greater Always How Still Line Continue Years Condition Same Keep Ever Consciousness
It seems to me that terrestrial beings, as they become more autonomous, psychologically richer, shut themselves up in a way against one another, and at the same time gradually become strangers to the cosmic environment and currents, impenetrable to one another, and incapable of exteriorizing themselves. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Time Me Become Strangers Way Cosmic Seems More Environment Terrestrial Another Up Same Gradually Same Time Currents Psychologically Autonomous Against Themselves Incapable Richer Beings Shut
Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Work Man Intelligence Mind Action Saved Speed Machine Relieved Find About Abruptly Part Perfecting Bound Devices Himself Idleness Material His Hands Anxieties Cannot Which Creating Toil Help Large Large Part Compelled
When all is said and done, what constitutes the impregnable superiority of Christianity over all other types of Faith is that it is ever more consciously identified with a Christogenesis: in other words, with an awareness of the rise of a certain universal Presence which is at once immortalizing and unifying. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Faith Words Awareness Christianity Other Types Once Rise Superiority More Over Identified Said Done In Other Words Which Unifying Certain Ever Presence Universal
To our critical eyes, the threads of which the past is woven are, by nature, endless and indivisible. Scientifically speaking, we cannot grasp the absolute beginning of anything: everything extends backwards to be prolonged by something else. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Nature Eyes Backwards Past Beginning Else Our Everything We Cannot Prolonged Critical Woven Threads Something Something Else Absolute Indivisible Scientifically Endless Anything Cannot Which Speaking Grasp
We must accept what science tells us, that man was born from the earth. But, more logical than the scientists who lecture us, we must carry this lesson to its conclusion: that is to say, accept that man was born entirely from the world - not only his flesh and bones but his incredible power of thought. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Man Science World Logical Thought Power Lesson Incredible Earth Say Carry Must Tells Born Entirely More Only Accept Conclusion Scientists His Lecture Than Us Flesh Who Bones
I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of 'escape of energy,' that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Life Me Respect First Energy Profit Unity Our Strikes Distaste Kind Hunting Pursuit Sacredness Buddhist Feel Devoid Also Because End Escape Effort Expenditure Illusory Hare
My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Will Paris Up Them Roots Pull
May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure. Pierre de Coubertin
Good Humanity Joy Pure Understanding Increasing Way Torch Enthusiastic More Pursue Through Courageous Fellowship Always Friendly May Nations Manner Ages Reign Among Olympic
The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well. Pierre de Coubertin
Life Victory Important Vanquished Combat Well Important Thing Fought Thing
Thinking is hard work. One can't bear burdens and ideas at the same time. Remy de Gourmont
Work Hard Work Time Thinking Bear Ideas Burdens Same Same Time Hard
Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety. Rene Daumal
Time Entirety Mystery Dawn Each Appears Each Time
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems. Rene Descartes
Science Problem Problems Other Rule Solve Solved Became Which Afterwards Each Served
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