Ernest Dimnet
Ernest Dimnet
Ernest Dimnet, French priest, writer and lecturer, is the author of The Art of Thinking, a popular book on thinking and reasoning during the 1930s...
fatal great happiness people repetition ruined slowly
The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things
roots ideas creation
Ideas are the roots of creation.
reflection discovery mind
The object of reflection is invariably the discovery of something satisfying to the mind which was not there at the beginning of the search.
scientific-method method
Learn to attack things frontally but according to the most scientific methods.
hate giving bored
Mankind might be divided between multitude who hate to be kept waiting because they get bored and the happy few who rather like it because it gives them time for thought.
humanity doe needs
Every now and then we discover in the seething mass of humanity round us a person who does not seem to need anybody else, and the contrast with ourselves is stinging.
reading mean names
Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name
education teaching school
A school is a place through which you have to pass before entering life, but where the teaching proper does not prepare you for life.
philosophy serious conversation
All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.