Top 25 Raymond Aron Quotes
#1. Nobody really thinks who does not abstract from that which is given, who does not relate the facts to the factors which have made them, who does not in his mind undo the facts. Abstractness is the very life of thought, the token of its authenticity.
Herbert Marcuse
#2. Remember never to text and drive, it's bad grammar, even if you have a deadline. You might cross the line and dead may be your destination. Think about it!!
Neil Leckman
#3. Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.
Raymond Aron
#4. The intellectual who no longer feels attached to anything is not satisfied with opinion merely; he wants certainty, he wants a system. The revolution provides him with his opium.
Raymond Aron
#5. Freedom flourishes in temperate zones; it does not survive the burning faith of prophets and crowds.
Raymond Aron
#6. The intellectual ... must try never to forget the arguments of the adversary, or the uncertainty of the future, or the faults of one's own side, or the underlying fraternity of ordinary men everywhere.
Raymond Aron
#7. Education is not sermonizing to children against their instincts and pleasures, but providing a natural continuity between what they feel and what they can and should be.
Allan Bloom
#8. In a way, all sociologists are akin to Marxists because of their inclination to settle everyone's accounts but their own.
Raymond Aron
#9. Fight, gentlemen of England! fight, bold yeomen!
Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head!
Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood;
Amaze the welkin with your broken staves!
William Shakespeare
#12. I listened to a lot of old school, golden era music. It gave me a lot of insight on how to rap and give my all.
Big K.R.I.T.
#13. Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme.
Raymond Aron
#15. Europeans would like to escape from their history, a "great" history written in letters of blood. But others, by the hundreds of millions, are taking it up for the first time, or coming back to it.
Raymond Aron
#18. What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.
Raymond Aron
#19. Youth, when it is hurt, likes to feel itself betrayed.
Willa Cather
#20. After that, with help from Jamie, I left Susan little notes every day. Susan is a big frog. (That one made Jamie giggle.)
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
#21. The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit a remedy.
Adam Smith
#22. In writing if it takes over 30 minutes to write the first two paragraphs select another subject.
Raymond Aron
#23. Political thought in France is either nostalgic or Utopian.
Raymond Aron
#24. Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution.
Raymond Aron
#25. Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than their preachings.
Raymond Aron
