Maurice Blondel Quotes

• If you really want to understand a man, don't just listen to what he says but watch what he does.

  Maurice Blondel

  Men, Doe, Watches

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• The ultimate function of art is to make men do what they want to do, as it is to make them recognize what they know.

  Maurice Blondel

  Art, Men, Want

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• To will nothing, then, is ..looking ..for that infinite virtuosity that always enters into the game and always runs off

  Maurice Blondel

  Running, Games, Infinite

  Maurice Blondel, Oliva Blanchette (2004). “Action (1893): essay on a critique of life and a science of practice”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

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• To unmask the deceit of every instinct for preservation is to procure salvation for humanity in nothingness.. ..Nothingness must be defined as the absense of all willing.

  Maurice Blondel

  Humanity, Deceit, Instinct

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