One of the principle causes is that the modern world has ma… - Julien Benda

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One of the principle causes is that the modern world has made the clerc into a citizen, subject to all the responsibilities of a citizen, and consequently to despise lay passions is far more difficult for him than for his predecessors.

Julien Benda

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Julien Benda (26 December 1867 – 7 June 1956) was a French philosopher and novelist.

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The modern clercs have created in so-called cultivated society a positive romanticism of harshness. The have also created a romanticism of contempt.

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).

That teaching according to which intellectual activity is worthy of esteem to the extent that it is practical and to that extent alone.

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