
Les Grecs et l’Irrationnel (The Greeks and the Irrational), 1951
Sur l’affaire Dreyfus.
Les Grecs et l’Irrationnel (The Greeks and the Irrational), 1951
But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.
en
De la liberté
“Expérience est le nom que nous donnons à nos erreurs.”
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
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L'Éventail de Lady Windermere ('), 1892
“La vérité se cherche, l'erreur se flaire.”
Ne dites pas à Dieu ce qu'il doit faire, 2004