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As peacemakers, we must resist all the powers of war and destruction and proclaim that peace is the divine gift offered to all who affirm life. Resistance means saying 'No' to all the forces of death, wherever they may be.


Henri Nouwen

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HENRI POINCARE I imagine a future aircraft, which will take off vertically, fly as usual, and land vertically. This...
HENRI COANDA You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for dri...
HENRI MATISSE It seems that laughter needs an echo.
HENRI BERGSON It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.
HENRI POINCARE He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.
HENRI MATISSE There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
HENRI MATISSE Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
HENRI POINCARE Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
HENRI MATISSE An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepar...
HENRI MATISSE Jazz is rhythm and meaning.
HENRI MATISSE It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used desc...
HENRI MATISSE Cutting into color reminds me of the sculptor's direct carving.
HENRI MATISSE A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't ...
HENRI MATISSE When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perce...
HENRI BERGSON Le savant doit ordonner ; on fait la science avec des faits comme une maison avec des pierres ; m...
HENRI POINCARé All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.
ROBERT HENRI I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on b...
HENRI MATISSE Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
HENRI BERGSON What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subje...
HENRI MATISSE If that enabled us to predict the succeeding situation with the same approximation, that is all we r...
HENRI POINCARE Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.
HENRI BERGSON Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
HENRI BERGSON I did my sculpture as a painter. I did not work as a sculptor.
HENRI MATISSE I believe that around us there is only one word on all sides, one immense word which reveals our sol...
HENRI BARBUSSE Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to k...
HENRI POINCARE The cause of the break with the tradition of antiquity was the rapid and unexpected advance of Islam...
HENRI PIRENNE The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, a...
HENRI POINCARE If one looks at the different problems of the integral calculus which arise naturally when one wishe...
HENRI POINCARE Work cures everything.
HENRI MATISSE A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of fo...
HENRI POINCARE To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense ...
HENRI POINCARE Science is facts. Just as houses are made of stones, so science is made of facts. But a pile of st...
HENRI POINCARE Feast of Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher, 373 A great many of those about me would be im...
HENRI PERRIN To marry unequally is to suffer equally.
HENRI AMIEL Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surren...
HENRI AMIEL A lively, disinterested, persistent liking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith ensla...
HENRI AMIEL I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
HENRI AMIEL Thought is a kind of opium; it can intoxicate us, while still broad awake; it can make transparent t...
HENRI AMIEL Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence
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