Citations sur la sagesse et la vérité
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À propos de l'élection française d'avril 2002.
Le Communisme comme réalité, 1981, Approche historique et approche sociologique
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These subjects were reasoning. They were working quite hard at reasoning. But it was not reasoning in search of truth; it was reasoning in support of their emotional reactions. It was reasoning as described by the philosopher David Hume, who wrote in 1739 that "reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.".
The Righteous Mind (2012)
“J'écrivais des silences, des nuits, je notais l'inexprimable. Je fixais des vertiges.”
Poèmes, Une saison en Enfer, 1873
« Il faut défendre la société » — Cours au Collège de France, 1976, Cours du 18 février 1976
La Tragédie classique, 1996, La « discipline » classique
Observations sur quelques grands peintres, 1807
My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. "Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom." I did not want them to cast in our teeth what General Hood had once done at Atlanta, that we had to call on their slaves to help us to subdue them. But, as regards kindness to the race . . ., I assert that no army ever did more for that race than the one I commanded at Savannah.
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