Quote of the day
Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
René Girard
Born: December 25, 1923
Died: November 4, 2015 (aged 91)
Bio: René Noël Théophile Girard was a French historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science whose work belongs to the tradition of anthropological philosophy.
Known for:
- Violence and the Sacred (1972)
- Deceit, Desire and the Novel (1961)
- The Girard reader (1996)
- The Scapegoat (1982)