When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he isn't a man of action.
Interpretation
Evaluating the nature of action indicates a lack of genuine commitment to taking action.
This quote by Georges Clemenceau suggests that overthinking or questioning the essence of action may signify a person's hesitation or incapacity to act. A true man of action simply takes initiative rather than getting caught up in theoretical discussions about it.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming procrastination.
Monet's garden must be included with his works, because he combined the magic of an adaptation of nature with the work of a painter of light. An extension of the studio into the openair, with color tones lavishly spread out on all sides to exercise the eye with seductive vibrations, from which a feverishly aroused retina expects unquenchable joy.
I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.
A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. It is as if a tennis player before returning a ball stopped to think about his views of the physical and mental advantages of tennis. You must act as you breathe.
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.
A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action. You must act as you breathe.
If it brings me to my knees, it's a bad religion
We live now in an era where normal values have been displaced. The good is called bad, the bad - good.
The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us
Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
As words are not the things we speak about, and structure is the only link between them, structure becomes the only content of knowledge. If we gamble on verbal structures that have no observable empirical structures, such gambling can never give us any structural information about the world. Therefore such verbal structures are structurally obsolete, and if we believe in them, they induce delusions or other semantic disturbances.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
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