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All children are atheists, they have no idea of God.


Paul Henri Thiry d'Holbach

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HENRI BERGSON To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense wit...
HENRI POINCARE The world is waiting ... for new saints, ecstatic men and women who are so deeply rooted in the love...
HENRI NOUWEN Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires ...
HENRI NOUWEN Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form...
HENRI BERGSON To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perce...
HENRI BERGSON The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the ...
HENRI BERGSON The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
HENRI BERGSON Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.
HENRI BECQUEREL Life on a farm is a school of patience; you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days.
HENRI ALAIN An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis. We call i...
HENRI BERGSON A tree growing out of the ground is as wonderful today as it ever was. It does not need to adopt new...
ROBERT HENRI The most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from w...
HENRI LEFEBVRE In this loveless everyday life eroticism is a substitute for love.
HENRI LEFEBVRE Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
HENRI MATISSE What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing sub...
HENRI MATISSE Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant.
HENRI QUEUILLE If youth knew; if age could.
HENRI ESTIENNE Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.
HENRI NOUWEN It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
HENRI MATISSE The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
HENRI BERGSON There are wonderful things in real jazz, the talent for improvisation, the liveliness, the being at ...
HENRI MATISSE Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.
ROBERT HENRI What I dream of is an art of balance.
HENRI MATISSE Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of ston...
HENRI POINCARE To give someone a blessing is the most significant affirmation we can offer.
HENRI NOUWEN As peacemakers, we must resist all the powers of war and destruction and proclaim that peace is the ...
HENRI NOUWEN I imagine a future aircraft, which will take off vertically, fly as usual, and land vertically. This...
HENRI COANDA The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to...
HENRI NOUWEN You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for dri...
HENRI MATISSE It seems that laughter needs an echo.
HENRI BERGSON It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.
HENRI POINCARE He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.
HENRI MATISSE To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.
HENRI NOUWEN There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
HENRI MATISSE Our inclination is to show our Lord only what we feel comfortable with. But the more we dare to reve...
HENRI NOUWEN When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it...
HENRI NOUWEN Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
HENRI POINCARE Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
HENRI MATISSE Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to us...
HENRI NOUWEN An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepar...
HENRI MATISSE Jazz is rhythm and meaning.
HENRI MATISSE Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very groun...
HENRI NOUWEN For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be domi...
HENRI NOUWEN It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used desc...
HENRI MATISSE