Emmanuel Mounier famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The universe is full of men going through the same motions in the same surroundings, but carrying within themselves, and projecting around them, universes as mutually remote as the constellations.
-- Emmanuel Mounier

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Language may die at the hands of the schoolman: it is regenerated by the poets
-- Emmanuel Mounier

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All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.
Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.
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.
The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.
Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.
You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.
The minds of stone lovers had colonised stones as lichens clung to them with golden or grey-green florid stains. The human world of stones is caught in organic metaphors like flies in amber. Words came from flesh and hair and plants. Reniform, mammilated, botryoidal, dendrite, haematite. Carnelian is from carnal, from flesh. Serpentine and lizardite are stone reptiles ; phyllite is leafy-green.
We are what we see. We are products of our surroundings.
It is imperative that the artist reveal through the medium in which he is happiest, what he sees, thinks and feels about his surroundings.
My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.

Emmanuel Mounier famous quotes

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