5 Quotes & Sayings By Antonin Sertillanges

Antonin Sertillanges, born in 1857, was the son of a French-born businessman. An attorney by training, he was appointed as a judge at the age of thirty-four. In 1896 he was elected deputy from Paris to the National Assembly where he succeeded in passing a series of reforms that simplified the process of divorce and allowed single women to own property. He also played a major role in securing the right of women to vote Read more

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Friendship is an obstetric art; it draws out our richest and deepest resources; it unfolds the wings of our dreams and hidden indeterminate thoughts; it serves as a check on our judgements, tries out our new ideas, keeps up our ardor, and inflames our enthusiasm. Antonin Sertillanges
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When we want to awaken a thought in anyone, what are the means at our disposal? One only, to produce in him by word and sign states of sensibility and of imagination, emotion and memory in which he will discover our idea and make it his own. Antonin Sertillanges
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It is a painful thing to say to oneself: by choosing one road I am turning my back on a thousand others. Everything is interesting; everything might be useful; everything attracts and charms a noble mind; but death is before us; mind and matter make their demands; willy-nilly we must submit and rest content as to things that time and wisdom deny us, with a glance of sympathy which is another act of our homage to the truth. Antonin Sertillanges
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Very often, gleams of light come in a few minutes' sleeplessness, in a secondperhaps; you must fix them. To entrust them to the relaxed brain is like writing on water; there is every chance that on the morrow there will be no slightest trace left of any happening. Antonin Sertillanges