Beautiful Quote 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…

— 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,"…

— Julien Benda

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

— Julien Benda

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…

— Julien Benda

Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the possession of things which cannot be shared.

— 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…

— Julien Benda

The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life.

— Julien Benda

The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant.

— Julien Benda

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…

— Julien Benda

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…

— Julien Benda

Since the Greeks the predominant attitude of thinkers towards intellectual activity was to glorify it insofar as (like aesthetic activity) it finds its satisfaction…

— Julien Benda

The modern clercs have created in so-called cultivated society a positive romanticism of harshness. The have also created a romanticism of contempt.

— Julien Benda