Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
“Atheism is a way of humility. It's to think oneself to be an animal, as we are actually and to allow oneself to become human.”
Source: Presentations de La Philosophie
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André Comte-Sponville 1
French philosopher 1952Related quotes
“The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.”
Source: Revolution for the Hell of It (1968), p. 184.
Diary of an Unknown (1988), On Invisibility
“The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.”
Le vrai moyen d'être trompé, c'est de se croire plus fin que les autres.
Maxim 127.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
Source: Lectures on Philosophy (1959), p. 76