Julien Benda - Teaching Quotes

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Up until our own times men had only received two sorts of teaching in what concerns the relations between politics and morality. One was Plato's and it said: Morality decides politics ; and the other was Machiavelli's, and it said Politics have nothing to do with morality. Today we receive a third. M. Maurras teaches: Politics decide morality.

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That teaching according to which intellectual activity is worthy of esteem to the extent that it is practical and to that extent alone.

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That teaching of modern metaphysics which exhorts man to feel comparatively little esteem for the truly thinking portion of himself and to honor the active and willing part of himself with all his devotion...

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