Dictionary definition: Alain

Encyclopedia entry: Émile Auguste Chartier
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      428 words ...Émile Auguste Chartier , 1868-1951, French essayist and philosopher who wrote under the pseudonym Alain. He is best known for thousands of aphoristic ...

Dictionary definition: Alain
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations;      266 words ...Alain ( Émile-Auguste Chartier ) 1868–1951 1. Rien n'est plus dangereux qu'une idée, quand on n'a qu'une idée. Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you have only one idea. Propos sur la religion (1938) no. 74

Article: Thought for the day.(News)
South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales);  January 28, 2003 ;     194 words ...Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one idea. -- Alain (Emile-Auguste Chartier)

Article: Countdown to launch: hitting the market with a new pharmaceutical ...
Medical Marketing & Media;  October 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... extended marketing team. Having many viewpoints is critical to the success of the launch. Noted French philosopher Emile Auguste Chartier explained why in an essay published in 1920. "Nothing is more dangerous than an idea," he wrote, "when it is the ...

Article: Anniversaries
The Independent - London;  June 2, 1997 ;     554 words ... ... Buller VC, general, 1908; Friedrich Hegar, composer and conductor, 1927; Herman Darewski, composer, 1947; Emile-Auguste Chartier ("Alain"), philosopher, 1951; George Simon Kaufman, playwright, 1961; Victoria Mary Sackville- West, writer ...

Article: Urban hero: wrong role for school teachers.(cultured)(Freedom ...
Education Next;  September 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... national status, but he was not a great teacher. Writing about France, my father could cite the high school teacher Emile-Auguste Chartier, commonly known simply as "Alain," as "a commanding presence in European moral and intellectual history" from 1906 ...

Article: Gazette: Anniversaries
The Independent - London;  June 2, 1999 ;     510 words ... ... Buller VC, general, 1908; Friedrich Hegar, composer and conductor, 1927; Herman Darewski, composer, 1947; Emile-Auguste Chartier ("Alain"), philosopher, 1951; George Simon Kaufman, playwright, 1961; Victoria Mary Sackville- West, writer ...