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Denis Diderot was a philosopher during the Enlightenment, author of the fictional essay “Regrets On Parting With My Old Dressing Gown.”
Brianna Wiest • 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
A true friend of man; almost the only friend of human progress. An Old Mortality, say rather an Immortality, with unwearied patience and faith making plain the image engraven in men’s bodies, the God of whom they are but defaced and leaning monuments.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
Philosopher Baltasar Gracián on giving advice:
“When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see.”
Saint Anselm was, like Lanfranc, an Italian, a monk at Bee, and archbishop of Canterbury (1093-1109), in which capacity he followed the principles of Gregory VII and quarrelled with the king. He is chiefly known to fame as the inventor of the “ontological argument” for the existence of God. As he put it, the argument is as follows: We define “God”
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is a good daemon, or a good thing. What then art
Marcus Aurelius • Meditations
Grenier incarne le sage qui sait face au disciple ignorant, celui qui donne à un être imaginant ne jamais pouvoir rendre, l'homme qui déroule le fil d'Ariane dans le labyrinthe de la culture et conseille la lecture de La Douleur de De Richaud au bon moment, mais aussi les philosophes existentiels utiles à la construction de cette jeune psyché sauva
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