Zitate von André Maurois
André Maurois
Geburtstag: 26. Juli 1885
Todesdatum: 9. Oktober 1967
André Maurois, eigentlich Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog , war ein französischer Schriftsteller, Literaturwissenschaftler und Historiker.
Ähnliche Autoren
Clive Staples Lewis15
irischer Schriftsteller und Literaturwissenschaftler
François Lelord7
französischer Psychiater und Schriftsteller
Anatole France10
französischer Schriftsteller
Jean Cocteau16
französischer Schriftsteller, Regisseur, Maler und Choreogr…
Jean De La Fontaine18
Schriftsteller, Poet
Paul Claudel2
französischer Schriftsteller, Dichter und Diplomat
Michel Houellebecq21
französischer Schriftsteller
Henry De Montherlant11
französischer Schriftsteller
Gustave Flaubert37
französischer Schriftsteller (1821-1880)
Nicolas Chamfort29
französischer SchriftstellerZitate André Maurois
„The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.“
— André Maurois
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Friendship
„Either the soul is immortal and we shall not die, or it perishes with the flesh and we shall not know that we are dead. Live, then, as if you were eternal“
— André Maurois
Context: What shall we know of our death? Either the soul is immortal and we shall not die, or it perishes with the flesh and we shall not know that we are dead. Live, then, as if you were eternal, and do not believe that your life has changed merely because it seems proved that the Earth is empty. You do not live in the Earth, you live in yourself.
Quoted by Will Durant in On the Meaning of Life http://books.google.com/books?id=XH5HAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Either+the+soul+is+immortal+and+we+shall+not+die+or+it+perishes+with+the+flesh+and+we+shall+not+know+that+we+are+dead+Live+then+as+if+you+were+eternal%22&pg=PA53#v=onepage (1932)
„A man's power and intelligence are limited. He who wants to do everything will never do anything.“
— André Maurois
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Working, Context: A man's power and intelligence are limited. He who wants to do everything will never do anything. Only too well do we know those people of uncertain ability who say: "I could be a great musician."..."Business would be easy for me."..."I could surely make success in politics." We may be certain that they will always be amateur musicians, failures in business, and beaten politicians. Napoleon held that the art of war consisted of making oneself strongest at a certain point; in life we must choose a point of attack and concentrate our forces there. The choice of a career must not be left to chance.
„Byron says that it is easier to die for the woman one loves than to live with her.“
— André Maurois
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Loving
„The love of humanity is a pathological state of a sexual origin which often appears at the age of puberty in nervous and clever people. The excess of phosphorus in the system must get out somewhere. As for hatred of a tyrant, that is a more human sentiment which has full play in time of war, when force and the mob are one. Emperors must be mad fools to decide on declaring wars which substitute an armed nation for their Praetorian Guards. That idiocy accomplished, despotism of course produces revolution until terrorism leads to the inevitable reaction.“
— André Maurois
Les silences du colonel Bramble (The Silence of Colonel Bramble)
„It is a fairly consistent law of humanity that men spend about half their lives at war. A Frenchman, called Lapouge, calculated that from the year 1100 to the year 1500, England had been 207 years at war and 212 years from 1500 to 1900. In France the corresponding figures would be 192 and 181 years. According to that same man Lapouge, nineteen million men are killed in war every century. Their blood would fill three million barrels of 180 liters each, and would feed a fountain of blood running 700 liters an hour from the beginning of history.“
— André Maurois
Les silences du colonel Bramble (The Silence of Colonel Bramble)
„Agreeable men are those who are interested in everything; men who accomplish things, who finish their tasks, are those who, during a given period of time, interest themselves in one thing only. In America these men are said to possess "single-track minds"' their tenacity and their obsession are sometimes boring, but they succeed, by repeated attacks, in demolishing the obstacles that hinder their progress.“
— André Maurois
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Working
„We do not completely love those at whom we cannot smile. There is something inhuman in absolute perfection which overwhelms the mind and heart, which commands respect, but keeps friendship at a distance through discouragement and humiliation. We are always glad when a great man reassures us of his humanity by possessing a few peculiarities.“
— André Maurois
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Friendship
„We are always repeating ancestral signs which are quite useless now. When a great actress wants to express hate she draws back her charming lips and shows her canine teeth, an unconscious sign of cannibalism. We shake hands with a friend to prevent him using it to strike us, and we take off our hats because our ancestors used to humbly offer their heads, to the bigwigs of those days, to be cut off.“
— André Maurois
Les silences du colonel Bramble (The Silence of Colonel Bramble)
„There is no permanent equilibrium in human affairs. Faith, wisdom, and art allow one to attain it for a time; then outside influences and the souls' passions destroy it, and one must climb the rock again in he same manner. This vacillation round a fixed point is life, and the certainty that such a point exists is happiness. As the most ardent love, of one analyses its separate moments, is made up of innumerable minute conflicts settled invariably by fidelity, so happiness, if one reduces it to its important elements, is made up of struggles and anguish, and always saved by hope.“
— André Maurois
Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Happiness
