Quotes of Julien Benda - somelinesforyou

“ I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring. ”

- Julien Benda

“ All Europe, including Erasmus, has followed Luther. ”

- Julien Benda

“ All Europe, including Erasmus, has followed Luther. ”

- Julien Benda

“ And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died. ”

- Julien Benda

“ Teachers preach the superiority of the intelligence; but they preach it because in their opinion it is the intelligence which shows us the actions required for our interests, i.e. from exactly the same passion for the practical. ”

- Julien Benda

“ Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the possession of things which cannot be shared, and if they raise themselves to a point where they adopt an abstract principle superior to their egotisms. In other words, it can only be obtained by a betterment of human morality. ”

- Julien Benda
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