Quotes by Proust, Marcel

Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering v >>

The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory >>

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full. >>

Quotations about Intelligence and Intellectuals

Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out. >>

Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appr >>

We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing. >>

Our intellect is not the most subtle, the most powerful, the most appropriate, instrument for revealing the truth. It is life that, little by little, example by example, permits us to see that what is most important to our heart, or to our mind, is learned not by reasoning but through other agencies. Then it is that the intellect, observing their superiority, abdicates its control to them upon reasoned grounds and agrees to become their collaborator and lackey.

Proust, Marcel