Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority. To invent is to discern, to choose.


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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
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
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
Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and ...
HENRI NOUWEN
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