He was a French historian, intellectual, critic and politician. His central interest focused on meaning
of history and the role which religion played in the unfolding of events.
He made a significant contribution to the developing tradition of liberalism in France.
His first major work, was a translation of Herder’s monumental philosophy of history,
"Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit" (Outlines of a Philosophy of the History of Man).
(1803 - 1875)
Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.
~ Edgar Quinet
Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still,
sooner or later becomes a sect.
~ Edgar Quinet
It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.
~ Edgar Quinet
I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms
~ Edgar Quinet
The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear
within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
~ Edgar Quinet
An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.
~ Edgar Quinet
What we share with another ceases to be our own.
~ Edgar Quinet
Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the
infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.
~ Edgar Quinet
Time is the fairest and toughest judge.
~ Edgar Quinet
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
~ Edgar Quinet
What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes
incarnate in the world?
~ Edgar Quinet
He was a British philosopher, logician, social critic best known for his work in mathematical logic and analytic philosophy. His most influential contributions include his defense of logicism (the view that mathematics is in some important sense reducible to logic), his refining of the predicate calculus introduced by Gottlob Frege (which still forms the basis of most contemporary logic), Accrding to him, the world consists of just one type of substance, neither exclusively mental nor exclusively physical. Russell is generally recognized as one of the founders of modern analytic philosophy, and one of the most important logicians of the twentieth century.
(1770 – 1827)
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
~ Charles Dickens
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
~ George Bernard Shaw
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
~ Friedrich NietzscheMore Proverbs
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