Dilettantes have not achieved anything lasting even in the applied arts. But they have rendered some service to the highest of all disciplines: philosophy. Montaigne, La Rochefoucauld, Vauvenargues are proof of this.


Aphorisms (1880/1893)

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Quotes

Dilettantes have not achieved anything lasting even in the applied arts. But they have rendered some service to the highest of all disciplines:...

Dilettantes have not achieved anything lasting even in the applied arts. But they have rendered some service to the highest of all disciplines:...

Dilettantes have not achieved anything lasting even in the applied arts. But they have rendered some service to the highest of all disciplines:...

Dilettantes have not achieved anything lasting even in the applied arts. But they have rendered some service to the highest of all disciplines:...