Quotes About Henri

Order is a great person's need and their true well being.

The aim of science is not things themselves, as the dogmatists in their simplicity imagine, but the relation between things.

What troubled Father Henri was that Arn's apparently unwarranted worries might actually be expressing something else, a great loneliness.

It is almost an intellectual tradition to pay heed to the insane. In my case those that I most respect are the morons.

Of all the idiotic emotions humans possess, love's the most idiotic. Don't you agree, Belle?" "No, Henri, I don't agree," she said. "Love isn't idiotic. It's hard and messy, confusing and wonderful. But to love and be loved…that's all that matters. Can't you see that?

The Germanic invasions in the West could not and did not in any way alter this state of affairs.

Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it really moves, has no objective existence.

The poetic prose that most interests me is that of Henri Michaux.

To try to borrow money from Henri was like appealing to the desert for a cooling draught.

Vane pulled out his wallet and handed several hundred dollar bills to Henri. Do me a favor. That guy downstairs Taylor. Give him the worst table in the house. Henri's eyes danced with amusement. For you, Mr. Kattalakis, anything. Vane took his seat as Henri walked off. That was so bad of you, she said with a coy smile. Do you want me to take it back? Hardly. I was merely pointing out that it was bad. What can I say? I'm just a big bad wolf.

A jolly future! Henri closed his eyes. From Vassieux to Hiroshima – they had gone a long way in a single year. The next war would really be something! And the next post-war period, that would be even neater than this one! That is, if there is a next post-war period – if the defeated don't take it into their heads to blow up the world.

I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.

But if metaphysics is to proceed by intuition, if intuition has the mobility of duration as its object, and if duration is of a psychical nature, shall we not be confining the philosopher to the exclusive contemplation of himself?

If Gisele murdered her husband, I can assure you my Henri wasn't involved. He's much too lazy for murder.

Whereas discipline without discipleship leads to rigid formalism, discipleship without discipline ends in sentimental romanticism.

Our primary task in solitude, therefore, is not to pay undue attention to the many faces which assail us, but to keep the eyes of our mind and heart on him who is our divine savior.

God is a God who wants to lead us closer to the full realization of our lionhearted humanity, if you will.

The great mystery is not the cures, but the infinite compassion which is their source.

Well, I don't know no woman of breeding. (Bart) And I am sure the ladies of the world over are now breathing a collective sigh of relief. (Henri)

Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.

Henri was giggling now, barely able to contain himself. So I'm to shovel coal into my shoes hoping no one notices, while smoke and steam - what of the vapor? There's little more smoke than a cigar, and the steam would be barely visible by gas lamp. It vents out the back of your trousers, under the tail of your coat. Marvelous! said Henri. I use a similar port for my own vapors. I want to try them, immediately.

From his very first works, it was clear that Henri Sauguet would bring spontaneity, romance, and a nonacademic approach back to modern music.

Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.

patriotism has become a narrow offensive sentiment which as long as it lives will maintain war and exhaust the world