Posted on October 3, 2022 “Solemnity is the shield of idiots.”—Montesquieu, French philosopher, 1689-1750
Posted on July 17, 2021July 17, 2021 “To think is to say no.”—Émile Chartier, French philosopher, 1868-1951
Posted on February 14, 2021February 14, 2021 “He who thinks himself wise, is a great fool.”—Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet), French philosopher, 1694-1778
Posted on January 15, 2021 “Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.”—Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet), French philosopher, 1694-1778
Posted on December 15, 2020 “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”—Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet), French philosopher, 1694-1778
Posted on November 18, 2020 “Appreciation is a wonderful thing: it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”—Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet), French philosopher, 1694-1778
Posted on April 9, 2020April 9, 2020 “What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.”—Michel Foucault, French philosopher, 1926-1984
Posted on December 1, 2018December 1, 2018 “Everything to be seen is constantly in the process of vanishing.”—Roland Barthes, French philosopher, 1915-1980
Posted on March 7, 2017March 7, 2017 “Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.”—Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher, 1905-1980
Posted on December 29, 2016December 29, 2016 “Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.”—Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher
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