Raymond Aron famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution.
-- Raymond Aron

#Revolution #Language #Speak
The intellectual who no longer feels attached to anything is not satisfied with opinion merely; he wants certainty, he wants a system. The revolution provides him with his opium.
-- Raymond Aron

#Intellectual #Atheism #Want
Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme.
-- Raymond Aron

#Atheism #Events #Nostalgia
Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than their preachings.
-- Raymond Aron

#Party #Practice #Names
In writing if it takes over 30 minutes to write the first two paragraphs select another subject.
-- Raymond Aron

#Writing #Two #Firsts
Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.
-- Raymond Aron

#Future #Enemy #Manipulate
Racism is the snobbery of the poor.
-- Raymond Aron

#Racism #Poor
Political thought in France is either nostalgic or Utopian.
-- Raymond Aron

#Political #France #Nostalgic
In a way, all sociologists are akin to Marxists because of their inclination to settle everyone's accounts but their own.
-- Raymond Aron

#Way #Settling #Marxist
Peace is impossible, war is improbable.
-- Raymond Aron

#War #Impossible #Improbable
What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.
-- Raymond Aron

#Errors #Optimism #Intelligence

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