La tolérance n'est pas une position contemplative, dispensant les indulgences à ce qui fut ou à ce qui est. C'est une attitude dynamique, qui consiste à prévoir, à comprendre et à promouvoir ce qui veut être.
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MARQUIS DE SADE Quoi qu’il en soit, Leibnitz ne sut jamais s’expliquer nettement sur les principes de son calcul... RENé GUéNON Et j'emmerde tous les gens bien-pensants qui estiment qu'un homme et une femme ne peuvent se limiter... DAN DASTIER Tel fut aussi le cas d'un Nietzsche, génie volcanique s'il en est ; ici encore - mais d'une façon ... FRITHJOF SCHUON Le développement des connaissances préhistoriques et archéologiques tend à étaler dans l'espace... CLAUDE LéVI-STRAUSS À s'accorder tant d'importance à soi-même, à s'agiter et à se débattre, on passe à côté de ... ETTY HILLESUM À l’époque primordiale, l’homme était, en lui-même, parfaitement équilibré quant au compl�... RENé GUéNON Comprendre... Vous n'avez que ce mot-là à la bouche, tous, depuis que je suis toute petite. Il fal... JEAN ANOUILH Elle avait un don, une aptitude particulière pour vous donner à voir ce qui vous avait échappé, ... NADIA HASHIMI Moi qui éprouve, comme chacun, le besoin d’être reconnu, je me sens pur en toi et vais à toi. J... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Tu as tout à apprendre, tout ce qui ne s'apprend pas: la solitude, l'indifférence, la patience, le... GEORGES PEREC En ce moment, je me sépare tant soit peu de moi-même et vais à la rencontre de la personne qui s'... VIRGINIA WOOLF Avec quelque spontanéité que nous obéissions à la voix qui nous dicte cette abnégation, nous se... ÉMILE DURKHEIM Socrate considérait que c'est un mal qui n'est pas loin de la folie, de s'imaginer que l'on possèd... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Tu finiras sûrement par le trouver le truc qui leur fait si peur, à eux tous, à tous ces salauds ... LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE Refuser de faire quelque chose parce qu'on l'a déjà fait, parce qu'on a déjà vécu l'expérience... MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ Les sentiments de l'effort, correspondant à l'accélération, le sentiment de la fatigue correspond... PIERRE JANET Il défendait une théorie : les couples ne fréquentent pas les célibataires. D'abord parce que le... LAURENT BETTONI Regardez mon enfant, voyez l'éclat de ses boucles folles et son sourire pareil à un vol de papillo... JODI PICOULT C’est ainsi que, par exemple, l’idée de l’Infini, qui est en réalité la plus positive de to... RENé GUéNON Ce monde, tel qu'il est fait, n'est pas supportable. J'ai donc besoin de la lune, ou du bonheur, ou ... ALBERT CAMUS Lorsqu’il essaya de l’expliquer à Hermione, celle-ci répondit : – Ce sont les examens qui fo... J.K. ROWLING Il n'y a que deux ou trois crimes à faire dans le monde, dit Curval, et, ceux-là faits, tout est d... MARQUIS DE SADE Quant à nous, nous respectons çà et là et nous épargnons partout le passé, pourvu qu'il consen... VICTOR HUGO Une condamnation de la vie de la part du vivant n’est finalement que le symptôme d’une espèce ... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE L'objectivité, vécue dans ce rêve et dans ces visions, relève de l'individuation accomplie. Elle... C.G. JUNG Lorsque la sexualité disparaît, c'est le corps de l'autre qui apparaît, dans sa présence vagueme... MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ Qu’est-ce qui peut seul être notre doctrine ? — Que personne ne donne à l’homme ses qualité... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Chaque jour qui commence est une page vierge. Une étendue de temps qui n’a pas encore été vécu... CATHERINE RAMBERT Quant à moi, maintenant, j'ai fermé mon âme. Je ne dis plus à personne ce que je crois, ce que j... GUY DE MAUPASSANT La vie est un défi à relever, un bonheur à mériter, une aventure à tenter. MOTHER TERESA Est-ce que nous voyons la cent millième partie de ce qui existe ? Tenez, voici le vent, qui est la ... GUY DE MAUPASSANT Ce qui m'intéresse, c'est de savoir qui paie les Rédempteurs, pas de me débarrasser d'une poigné... GABRIEL KATZ Le voyageur sait qu'il n'y a plus de bouts du monde. 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HENRI GOUGAUD L'idée préconçue entrave et endommage la libre et pleine manifestation de la vie psychique, que j... C.G. JUNG Il est incertain où la mort nous attende, attendons-la partout. La préméditation de la mort est p... MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Les gens qui ont besoin de plus qu une valise ne sont pas de vrais voyageurs, ce sont des touristes. IRA LEVIN L'expérience, ce n'est pas ce qui nous arrive, c'est ce que nous faisons avec ce qui nous arrive. ALDOUS HUXLEY C'est donc la proportion existante entre la somme des capitaux et celle des revenus qui détermine p... ADAM SMITH On peut s’expliquer facilement par là un fait que nous avons eu fréquemment l’occasion de cons... RENé GUéNON Je choisis des mots simples et concrets... J'essaie de faire des phrases courtes et j'évite les inv... JACQUES POULIN Oui, lorsqu'on surveille le temps, il passe très lentement. J'aime beaucoup la température, quatre... THOMAS MANN La vie est une farce, apprends à rire. MARIE-CLAIRE BLAIS Qui cherche et ne saisit pas ce qui s'offre ne le reverra jamais plus. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Respecter une femme, c'est pouvoir envisager l'amitié avec elle ; ce qui n'exclut pas le jeu de la ... TAHAR BEN JELLOUN Il y a des beautés qui sautent aux yeux et d'autres qui sont écrites en hyéroglyphes: on met du t... AMéLIE NOTHOMB Si, bien avant la puberté, et parfois même dès sa toute petite enfance, elle nous apparaît déj�... SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR La raison nous impose des limites bien trop étroites et nous invite à ne vivre que le connu - enco... C.G. JUNG Si nous avons accordé à l'Amérique le privilège de l'histoire cumulative, n'est-ce pas, en effet... CLAUDE LéVI-STRAUSS Il y a des personnes à qui l'intention ne vaut rien, seul le hasard leur est propice. Le silence co... ERRI DE LUCA Dans les jours d'après nous distribuerons tes soixante-dix-sept peluches, une par une ou deux par d... SOPHIE DAULL L’homme cherche un principe au nom duquel il puisse mépriser l’homme ; il invente un autre mond... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE La tournée terminée, Tom et Roger pensèrent qu'après le succès de I Shot The Sheriff, ce serait... ERIC CLAPTON AGAMEMNÔN. Il n’est pas facile à un roi d’être pieux. ODYSSEUS. Mais les rois peuv... SOPHOCLES J'ai consulté mon téléphone: je n'avais aucun message. C'est à cela que servent les téléphones... DAVID FOENKINOS En admettant que l’on ait compris ce qu’il y a de sacrilège dans un pareil soulèvement contre ... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Les tentatives faites pour connaître la richesse et l'originalité des cultures humaines, et pour l... CLAUDE LéVI-STRAUSS Sombres, dites-vous? Mais posez-vous la question docteur : pourquoi tous les grands philosophes sont... IRVIN D. YALOM Vous pensiez que l'innocence suffirait à vous délivrer des filets d'un système juridique dont nou... PAULO COELHO Nul n'est plus chanceux que celui qui croit à sa chance. 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With the World Cup round the corner, it is imp... ANDREW STRAUSS Situations like this bring people together and we are 100% per cent behind Freddie, who is a great c... ANDREW STRAUSS The way the series has gone it's a great possibility it might be a very close game, ANDREW STRAUSS My caddy today was a Scot and he told me that he was cheering for Australia, which I thought was a b... ANDREW STRAUSS The guys are all pretty confident about their techniques, ANDREW STRAUSS The wicket looked flat but it didn't transpire that way. We've got to be ready for any type of wicke... ANDREW STRAUSS The pitch certainly did a bit this morning. ANDREW STRAUSS We were suddenly four or five down before we realized that actually this wicket was not my kind of w... ANDREW STRAUSS A lot of people automatically think of African music as rhythmic festival music. A lot of it is, but... WALTER STRAUSS I have twin six-year-old boys. Have no mojo. The closest thing to a mojo I have is five minutes of p... 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NEIL STRAUSS Never let the horns and woodwinds out of your sight; if you can hear them at all, they are too loud. RICHARD STRAUSS The current system doesn't provide for enough visas. It's plagued with an enormous backlog and doesn... MICHAEL STRAUSS When things change very rapidly we have a fiduciary responsibility to review what are the circumstan... JOZEF STRAUSS You can work really hard and well on something, and someone you respect might hate it; worse, they... DARIN STRAUSS They're so logo-washed, so heavily branded when they are young, WILLIAM STRAUSS We have learnt what it takes to win a series in India. ANDREW STRAUSS Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really... LEVI STRAUSS You got them, and they were stiff as a board, and you broke them in. LEVI STRAUSS I'm no fan of jam bands. You can take your Gov't Mule, your Phish, your Rusted Root. But Der... DARIN STRAUSS I had always assumed that Alan was done with TV. I thought he was going to do movies, so we didn't e... CAROLYN STRAUSS I'd violated the primary rule of junior and senior high-- don't get people talking about you too muc... DARIN STRAUSS Since I was 18, I've been under orders from magazines and newspapers - chiefly The New York Time... NEIL STRAUSS It's certainly not something we would dismiss automatically. DAVID STRAUSS In many ways this is a dress rehearsal for the big event, which is next year. We only get one chance... JEFFREY STRAUSS It's a wonderful networking opportunity. I've definitely furthered deals. I meet high-level and infl... RICHARD STRAUSS Building brand name is key. That's what America is all about, RICHARD STRAUSS I think we're enormously pleased with it on all fronts. This show seemed to strike a chord with audi... CAROLYN STRAUSS Rome. It is a series that charts entirely new ground in terms of scope and ambition. CAROLYN STRAUSS I just can't imagine a guy who's made more than 70 international centuries turning up at Lord's and ... ANDREW STRAUSS Born In 1983. ROBERT STRAUSS My reading [of the legislation] suggests that it doesn't tiptoe, it rushes headlong into substantive... ROBERT STRAUSS At the other end of this, who's going to be taking as serious any commitments that are made? The rea... ROBERT STRAUSS What we saw Tuesday night is nothing to be proud of -- it was embarrassing. Nobody talked about the ... ROBERT STRAUSS I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer. RICHARD STRAUSS We've actually been at the low-end of the Street range for the fourth quarter ... (and) felt that we... RICHARD STRAUSS Of all the gin joints, they had to walk into ours. Everything was going great and then comes this. CAROLYN STRAUSS I guess when you write a personal story, people feel compelled to share their own stories. DARIN STRAUSS They are used when you have multiple video streams and you have to translate from MPEG 2 to MPEG 4 f... WILL STRAUSS I've had menial jobs, and 'professional writer' isn't one of them. DARIN STRAUSS In Minneapolis, I learned that there are more theaters per square mile than in any U.S. city but New... DARIN STRAUSS Almost everyone who reaches a plateau where he or she is happy and comfortable says it's because... NEIL STRAUSS There is a downside to casual sex: Sometimes it stops being casual. People develop a desire for some... NEIL STRAUSS Lying is about controlling someone else’s reality, hoping that what they don’t know won’t hurt... NEIL STRAUSS In fact, every woman I met seemed disposable and replaceable. I was experiencing seducer's paradox: ... NEIL STRAUSS Most people seem to believe that if a relationship doesn't last until death, it's a failure. But the... NEIL STRAUSS To win the game was to leave it. NEIL STRAUSS I've never trusted collaborations, because most people in this world are not closers. They don't fin... NEIL STRAUSS