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> [It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors what is ill.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julien-benda/it-may-be-said-that-modern-europe-with-teachers-who-inform-it-that/)

[Julien Benda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julien-benda/)

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## More by 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julien-benda/peace-is-only-possible-if-men-cease-to-place-their-happiness-in-the/)

[Julien Benda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julien-benda/)

> [Philosophy, which formerly raised man to feel conscious of himself because he was a thinking being and to say, 'I think therefore I am,"…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julien-benda/philosophy-which-formerly-raised-man-to-feel-conscious-of-himself/)

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> [And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julien-benda/and-history-will-smile-to-think-that-this-is-the-species-for-which/)

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> [Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julien-benda/nothing-seems-to-me-more-doubtful-than-aristotle-s-remark-that-it-is/)

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> [It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors what is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julien-benda/it-may-be-said-that-modern-europe-with-teachers-who-inform-it-that/)

[Julien Benda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julien-benda/)

> [Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the possession of things which cannot be shared.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julien-benda/peace-is-only-possible-if-men-cease-to-place-their-happiness-in-the-2/)

[Julien Benda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julien-benda/)

> [Christianity exhorted man to set himself up against Nature, but did so in the name of his spiritual and disinterested attributes. Pragmatism exhorts him…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julien-benda/christianity-exhorted-man-to-set-himself-up-against-nature-but-did-so/)

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> [The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julien-benda/the-modern-moralists-extol-the-cult-of-practical-activity-in-defiance/)

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> [The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julien-benda/the-man-of-science-the-artist-the-philosopher-are-attached-to-their/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julien-benda/i-shall-go-further-and-say-that-even-if-an-examination-of-the-past/)

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> [The true clerc is Vauvenargues, Lamarck, Fresnel, Spinoza, Schiller, Baudelaire, César Franck, who were never diverted from single-hearted adoration of the beautiful and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julien-benda/the-true-clerc-is-vauvenargues-lamarck-fresnel-spinoza-schiller/)

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> [Since the Greeks the predominant attitude of thinkers towards intellectual activity was to glorify it insofar as (like aesthetic activity) it finds its satisfaction…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julien-benda/since-the-greeks-the-predominant-attitude-of-thinkers-towards/)

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> [The modern clercs have created in so-called cultivated society a positive romanticism of harshness. The have also created a romanticism of contempt.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julien-benda/the-modern-clercs-have-created-in-so-called-cultivated-society-a/)

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> [All Europe, including Erasmus, has followed Luther.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julien-benda/all-europe-including-erasmus-has-followed-luther/)

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> [Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war but on the love of peace.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julien-benda/peace-if-it-ever-exists-will-not-be-based-on-the-fear-of-war-but-on-2/)

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