Etienne Quotes

If you want something done right, do it yourself.

Knowledge management will never work until corporations realize it's not about how you capture knowledge but how you create and leverage it.

History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought.

It has always happened that tyrants, in order to strengthen their power, have made every effort to train their people not only in obedience and servility toward themselves, but also in adoration.

Where the material ends, art begins.

Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed.

Let us ... quietly accept our times, with the firm conviction that just as much good can be done today as at any time in the past, provided only that we have the will and the way to do it.

To minds tormented by the divine thirst, it is useless to offer the most certain knowledge of the laws of numbers and the arrangement of the universe

Philosophy always buries its undertakers.

Radiance belongs to being considered precisely as beautiful: it is, in being, that which catches the eye, or the ear, or the mind, and makes us want to perceive it again

One pearl is better than a whole necklace of potatoes.

Faith comes to intelligence as a light that overflows it with joy and inspires it with a certitude that does away with question.

Our ideas are transformed sensations.

There is no need to argue if an experiment can be made.

We always come back to our first love.

A minister who moves about in society is in a position to read the signs of the times even in a festive gathering, but one who remains shut up in his office learns nothing.

But one always returns to one's first loves.

It is difficult to attack me directly on religion because I never speak of it. Formally I am a strict observer of decorum and in public affairs it is my principle to uphold religion.

But one always returns to one's first loves. [Fr., Mais on revient toujours A ses premieres amours.]

God tempers the cold to the shorn sheep.

We can't achieve zero waste without reuse.

Reuse is the original green collar job.

You could say, in a way, that I'm not actually a writer, though perhaps I might be called a recorder? ... I just happen to be one of those holding the pen, that's all.

Architecture is space structured to serve man and to move him.

The shadow of scepticism is dispelled in the light of real knowledge.

Butcher, baker, candlestick maker – many are unaware of the true role they play in Reality.

If you're looking for sympathy, you'll find it in the dictionary, somewhere between 'shit' and 'syphilis'.

For the most part, what we think of as 'I' is nothing more than a whole heap of conditioning.

The hidden economy [is] fed not by money and greed but by love, pure and simple. You see the best and truly golden opportunities do not arise to benefit oneself, but in order to benefit others.

Don't just stand there and nod. The mind observes and cogitates, the heart engages, and I would encourage you to engage with the process.