Quote of the day
One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
Tzvetan Todorov
Born: March 1, 1939
Died: February 7, 2017 (aged 77)
Bio: Tzvetan Todorov was a Bulgarian-French historian, philosopher, literary critic, sociologist and essayist.
Known for:
- Facing the Extreme (1996)
- The poetics of prose (1971)
- In Defence of the Enlightenment (2009)