Top 26 Benda Quotes
#2. Thinking is one of the important ways that we put the fuel of knowledge on the fires of worship and service to the world.
John Piper
#3. Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several times lost.
Julien Benda
#4. The first person who is on your mind the moment you open your eyes after a long sleep is the reason either of your happiness or pain.
Reader's Digest Association
#5. The world is filled with colours galore, each day is a colourful festivity.
Debasish Mishra
#7. The modern clercs have created in so-called cultivated society a positive romanticism of harshness. The have also created a romanticism of contempt.
Julien Benda
#8. The modern moralists extol ... the cult of practical activity in defiance of the disinterested life.
Julien Benda
#9. Philosophy, which formerly raised man to feel conscious of himself because he was a thinking being and to say, 'I think therefore I am," now raises him to say ... "I think, therefore I am not," (unless he takes thought into consideration only in that humble region where it is confused with action).
Julien Benda
#11. Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#13. Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.
David Rockefeller
#14. I don't speak up about something unless I feel strongly about it and until I've researched a subject extensively and have an informed decision about it.
Viggo Mortensen
#15. If you look at the entrance halls of the skyscrapers of the 1920s and 1930s, they are very welcoming. They are public spaces with enormous amounts of display and marble and so on. They were havens off the street.
Joseph Rykwert
#16. I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring.
Julien Benda
#17. The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant.
Julien Benda
#18. Peace is only possible if men cease to place their happiness in the possession of things "which cannot be shared," and if they raise themselves to a point where they adopt an abstract principle superior to their egotisms. In other words, it can only be obtained by a betterment of human morality.
Julien Benda
#19. I think everything contributes to your creativity.
Gary Gulman
#20. Teachers ... preach "the superiority of the intelligence"; but they preach it because in their opinion it is the intelligence which shows us the actions required for our interests, i.e. from exactly the same passion for the practical.
Julien Benda
#21. My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can.
Sara Zarr
#22. It may be said that modern Europe with teachers who inform it that its realist instincts are beautiful, acts ill and honors what is ill.
Julien Benda
#23. If someone does something bad to you, you do something worse to them so they never mess with you again.
Jessica Chastain
#24. For me, Nuria Montfort was like a mirage: you don't question its veracity, you simply follow it until it vanishes or until it destroys you.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#25. And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.
Julien Benda
#26. All Europe, including Erasmus, has followed Luther.
Julien Benda
