Maurice Blondel famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If you really want to understand a man, don't just listen to what he says but watch what he does.
-- Maurice Blondel

#Men #Want #Doe
To will nothing, then, is ..looking ..for that infinite virtuosity that always enters into the game and always runs off
-- Maurice Blondel

#Running #Games #Infinite
The ultimate function of art is to make men do what they want to do, as it is to make them recognize what they know.
-- Maurice Blondel

#Art #Men #Want
To unmask the deceit of every instinct for preservation is to procure salvation for humanity in nothingness.. ..Nothingness must be defined as the absense of all willing.
-- Maurice Blondel

#Humanity #Deceit #Instinct

He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back
I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.
This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.
God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.
We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?
We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.
Our society covers these problems with a veil. All I want is an open discussion
I gravitate toward the larger worldview questions such as, Why are we here? What are we supposed to be doing? What does it mean to know another person? To love someone? Of course, those questions are sort of in the background as I'm playing with language in the foreground, but those are the informing questions.
Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work
The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.

Maurice Blondel famous quotes

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