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The modern era is held to be contemporaneous with the rise of natural science, and the decline of the centralising tendency in Christendom. Hence Descartes is described as a modern philosopher, while Aquinas is not.
“nothing that is worth knowing can be taught”
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“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
[Preface to Brissot's Address to His Constituents (1794)]”
― On Empire, Liberty, and Reform: Speeches and Letters
[Preface to Brissot's Address to His Constituents (1794)]”
― On Empire, Liberty, and Reform: Speeches and Letters
“Don’t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don’t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
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“Plato was a bore.”
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