Marcel Proust

Quote of Marcel Proust - A change in the weather is...

Biography - Marcel Proust:

French novelist, critic and essayist.
Born: 1871 - Died: 1922
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

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A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.

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Quotes for: change

Quotes about change:

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Alan Watts - The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety /

Change alone is the constant.

Arthur Schopenhauer - Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life /

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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

Carl Gustav Jung /

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

Bertolt Brecht /

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To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

Henri Bergson - Creative Evolution /

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Quotes for: world

Quotes about the world:

The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.

Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus /

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.

William Blake - Auguries of Innocence /

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.

Albert Einstein /

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Let us read and let us dance—these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

Voltaire - Philosophical Dictionary /

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

William Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice /

All about the world...

Quotes for: oneself

Quotes about oneself:

It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Katherine Mansfield /

A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

Seneca - De Vita Beata /

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Michel de Montaigne - Essays /

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

Robert Green Ingersoll /

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Marcel Proust also said...

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust - La Prisonnière /

The time at our disposal each day is elastic the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it.

Marcel Proust /

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

Marcel Proust /

We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond.

Marcel Proust /

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.

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