"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."

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Source : Julien Benda (2011). “The Treason of the Intellectuals”, p.183, Transaction Publishers

Julien Benda

#Beautiful Quotes #Teacher Quotes #Europe Quotes

“Candidate Obama promised to fundamentally transform America and that's one promise he has kept. Turning a shining city on a hill into a sinking ship.”
“Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it”
“When Iâ€™m photographing I see life.”
“Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful.”
“The best society, the best human existence, arrives when humans most closely determine the truth, and act on the truth, and separate it from superstition, falsity, or misinformation. And there is no better system for determining the truth than free speech: Testing the validity of an idea in the waters of public discussion and debate....”
“Nobody wants to proclaim, 'I changed the world with my inferior products.'”
“He who does the most good is the greatest man. Power, authority, dignity, honors, wealth and station--these are so far valuable as they put it into the hands of men to be more exemplary and more useful than they could be in an obscure and private life. But then these are means conducting to an end, and that end is goodness.”
“If, it was natural to reason, God punishes men with eternal torment, it is surely lawful for men to use doses of it in a good cause.”

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