“Nor am I nostalgic, as a French philosopher once wrote, for a lost poverty. I am nostalgic for the solidarity and sharing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For example, a few years ago, a great French philosopher, Roger Garaudy, wrote a scientific book. He did not offend, curse, or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau speculated that states are formed by a social contract, a rational decision reached when people calculated their… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Brazil is a country largely resistant to ideology. This is a strange fact given its founding by followers of the French philosopher… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
[John Adams] experience with the French philosophers only convinced him further of the need for a bicameral legislature representing the two principal… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
I was born in France. My father was a renowned French philosopher and journalist, and my mother was a painter. So I… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
“This may sound somewhat obvious but, as the French philosopher Voltaire once famously pointed out, the main problem with common sense is… — Richard Wiseman Copy Share Image
I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who has informed… — Andrea Bocelli Copy Share Image
[John] Adams said his objective in writing his Defence of the Constitutions of the United States and his Davila essays was to… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
“...the Kabbalist was interested not in the perfected text whose author is dead and can no longer respond but in contact with… — Moshe Idel Copy Share Image
“He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“collectivity, on the other hand, is the place of what the seventeenth-century French philosopher Blaise Pascal calls “divertissement,” an untranslatable word which… — William H. Shannon Copy Share Image
The French philosopher Pierre-Hyacinthe Azaïs (1766-1845) formalized the statement that good and evil fortune are exactly balanced in that they produce for… — Richard Arnold Epstein Copy Share Image
“French philosophers had been able to admire Mao and his works because they did not have to live in China at the… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Most experts today subscribe to some variations of the incongruity theory, the idea that humor arises when people discover there's an inconsistency… — Joel Warner Copy Share Image
The wall at Le Philosophe is covered with French philosophers, and supposedly, if you are able to name all of them, they… — Caterina Fake Copy Share Image
“We are rendered powerless; our voice is silenced by whatever form of elitism is working through a political system that gives us… — Alan Watkins Copy Share Image
“The 1980s witnessed radical advances in the theorisation of the study of literature in the universities. It had begun in France in… — Geoffrey Harvey Copy Share Image
“The French philosopher Jacques Derrida likens writing fiction to a software code that operates in the hardware of your mind. Stringing together… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“It's best not to get too hungry if you can avoid it. If you get hungry enough, you will start feeling that… — Katherine Rundell Copy Share Image
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