The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the gems of its production.


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War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU
In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU
A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed f...
GEORGES BERNANOS
Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem ...
GEORGES BERNANOS
Art is made to disturb, science reassures.
GEORGES BRAQUE
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness.
GEORGES SIMENON
The older the layers, the more each of them is uniform over a great extent; the newer the layers, th...
GEORGES CUVIER
I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.
GEORGES SIMENON
Can there be anything more sad than a girl dying on the day of her first communion, in her new dress...
GEORGES RODENBACH
War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military.
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU
War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU
It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.
GEORGES COURTELINE
A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed f...
GEORGES BERNANOS
There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degener...
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU
When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he is not a man of action. Action is a lac...
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU
Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU
Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? ...
GEORGES BERNANOS
It is far easier to make war than to make peace.
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU
Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our ...
GEORGES ROUAULT
Painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.
GEORGES ROUAULT
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU
War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU
We slowed it down to our tempo, played our game. We just lost it in the overtime.
SEAN GEORGES
I adore life but I don't fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.
GEORGES SIMENON
Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, ...
GEORGES CUVIER
Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? ...
GEORGES BERNANOS
And what have you laymen made of hell? A kind of penal servitude for eternity, on the lines of your ...
GEORGES BERNANOS
The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means
GEORGES BERNANOS
Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible in...
GEORGES DUHAMEL
By voluntarily participating in these programs, and by setting ambitious targets which are more aggr...
GEORGES AUGUSTE
The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless...
GEORGES ROUAULT
He imitated me so well that I couldn't stand myself any longer.
GEORGES POMPIDOU
Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an animal's incomplete compared to a person....
GEORGES BATAILLE
Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.
GEORGES BRAQUE
The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent trut...
GEORGES BATAILLE
Hence the same instant which killed the animals froze the country where they lived. This event was s...
GEORGES CUVIER
Few peek through these differing angles and many opt for the accustomed, the habitual, it is mostly ...
GEORGES BERTRAND
A Christian people doesn't mean a lot of goody-goodies. The Church has plenty of stamina, and isn't ...
GEORGES BERNANOS
It was the serene cheerfulness of a man who has no nightmares, who feels at peace with himself and e...
GEORGES SIMENON
We pedaled rapidly, without laughing or speaking, peculiarly satisfied with our mutual presence, aki...
GEORGES BATAILLE
Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of...
GEORGES BATAILLE
The wish to pray is a prayer in itself.
GEORGES BERNANOS
It is one of the most mysterious penalties of men that they should be forced to confide the most pre...
GEORGES BERNANOS
It's the first time there will be Asian Excellence Awards handed out for performances on TV, movies ...
BILL GEORGES
I have plumbed the depth of human cowardice and I realized that there is only one way to be right, a...
GEORGES BIDAULT