
“Je pleurai à l'idée que la vie fût si simple, et serait si facile si nous étions nous-mêmes assez simples pour l'accepter.”
, 1929
Marguerite Yourcenar 156
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And now we are wanting everyone in every country through the education department of every government to unfold that inner content of life. It’s very simple to light the lamp is so easy. And yet that process of lighting the lamp is enough to eliminate the difficulties in the darkness.
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“Si on accepte la vie logiquement, l'imprévisible est en réalité prévisible.”
Combats de coqs, 1972

I hope it is obvious why anyone who accepts the idea of objective truth and therefore of objective knowledge thinks […] that an argumentum ad hominem is an invalid argument. If someone makes a claim to truth and can give that claim the right kind of support, and if that claim is indeed true, then that person genuinely knows something. The fact that the whole enterprise of claiming and validating may have been carried out by someone who is racist or sexist is just irrelevant to the truth of the claim.
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Rationalité et Réalisme : qu’est-ce qui est en jeu ? ('), 1993