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The desire to abase the values of knowledge before the values of action...
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And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.
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The modern moralists extol … the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life.
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From his loftiest pulpit the modern clerc assures man that he is great in proportion as he is practical.
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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.
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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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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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The modern clercs have created in so-called cultivated society a positive romanticism of harshness. The have also created a romanticism of contempt.
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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 times lost.
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For M. Maurras the practical is the divine, and his atheism consists less in denying God than in shifting him to man and his political work. … It is the divinizing of politics.
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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 prediction would be the contrary of reassuring.
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If shame is cried upon him, … he will point out … that today he has to earn his living, and that it is not his fault if he is eager to support the class which takes a pleasure in his productions.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
Julien Benda
Born:
December 26, 1867
Died:
June 7, 1956
(aged 88)
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