Deviner avant de démontrer! Ai-je besoin de rappeler que c'est ainsi que se sont faites toutes les découvertes importantes.

Guessing before proving! Need I remind you that it is so that all important discoveries have been made?


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To marry unequally is to suffer equally.
HENRI AMIEL
Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surren...
HENRI AMIEL
A lively, disinterested, persistent liking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith ensla...
HENRI AMIEL
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
HENRI AMIEL
Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent t...
HENRI AMIEL
Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence
HENRI AMIEL
For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of wil...
HENRI AMIEL
Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
HENRI AMIEL
Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self comman...
HENRI AMIEL
We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
HENRI AMIEL
For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, ...
HENRI BERGSON
Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.
HENRI POINCARE
To invent is to discern, to choose.
HENRI POINCARE
Our efforts to disconnect ourselves from our own suffering end up disconnecting our suffering from G...
HENRI NOUWEN
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, a...
HENRI POINCARE
If youth only knew: if age only could.
HENRI ESTIENNE
Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.
HENRI MATISSE
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. -Henri Bergson.
HENRI BERGSON
Do whatever you do intensely.
ROBERT HENRI
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
HENRI BERGSON
Action on the move creates its own route; creates to a very great extent the conditions under which ...
HENRI BERGSON
There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.
ROBERT HENRI
Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are...
HENRI MATISSE
There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he...
HENRI MATISSE
If youth but knew; if age but could.
HENRI ESTIENNE
Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.
HENRI POINCARE
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing sub...
HENRI MATISSE
Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought.
HENRI BERGSON
Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.
HENRI BERGSON
Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no ...
HENRI NOUWEN
When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to ...
HENRI ROUSSEAU
In the beginning you must subject yourself to the influence of nature. You must be able to walk firm...
HENRI MATISSE
Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people.
HENRI NOUWEN
Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other b...
HENRI NOUWEN
When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realiz...
HENRI NOUWEN
Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
HENRI POINCARE
The Germanic invasions in the West could not and did not in any way alter this state of affairs.
HENRI PIRENNE
The Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean unity of the ancient world, nor what may ...
HENRI PIRENNE
If a king tries to start a war, a mother should go to him and forbid it.
HENRI ROUSSEAU
An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
HENRI BERGSON
One of the most beautiful ways for spiritual formation to take place is to let your insecurity lead ...
HENRI NOUWEN
I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.
HENRI MATISSE
I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all...
HENRI MATISSE
Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures...
HENRI MATISSE
An error is the more dangerous the more truth it contains.
HENRI-FREDERIC
• When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventiv...
ROBERT HENRI
Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.
ROBERT HENRI
Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is...
ROBERT HENRI
If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we co...
HENRI POINCARE
Hypotheses are what we lack the least.
HENRI POINCARE
In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighb...
HENRI BERGSON
The first duty of wine is to be red. Don't talk to me of your white wines.
HENRI MURGER
I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.
HENRI MATISSE
Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?
HENRI POINCARE
Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and ...
HENRI NOUWEN
Mathematicians are born, not made.
HENRI POINCARE
Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.
HENRI POINCARE
A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.
ROBERT HENRI
We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky ...
HENRI MATISSE
You are my Beloved, on you my favor rests.' It certainly is not easy to hear that voice in a world f...
HENRI NOUWEN
Es la imagen más pura de la mujer amada: la que aún no conocemos totalmente, la que se revelará, ...
HENRI BARBUSSE
Quando alguém tem força para vencer a si mesmo, nasceu para grandes empreendimentos.
HENRI LACORDAIRE
Mais, j’aurai beau supplier, j’aurai beau me révolter, il n’y aura plus rien pour moi ; je n...
HENRI BARBUSSE
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence ...
HENRI BERGSON
Genius is that which forces the inertia of humanity to learn.
HENRI BERGSON
In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole ...
HENRI BERGSON
There is nothing in philosophy which could not be said in everyday language.
HENRI BERGSON
Wherever anything lives, there is, open somewhere, a register in which time is being inscribed.
HENRI BERGSON
The motive power of democracy is love
HENRI BERGSON
The body, by the place which at each moment it occupies in the universe, indicates the parts and the...
HENRI BERGSON
In their poverty, the mentally handicapped reveal God to us and hold us close to the gospel.
HENRI NOUWEN
It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.
ROBERT HENRI
I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.
ROBERT HENRI
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence ...
HENRI BERGSON
Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a scie...
HENRI POINCARE
Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to ...
HENRI POINCARE
Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the usef...
HENRI POINCARE
Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of ston...
HENRI POINCAR
L’art de vivre consiste en un subtil mélange entre lâcher prise et tenir bon.
HENRI LEWIS