Ernst von Salomon (1902–1972) écrivain allemand
français
Les réprouvés, 1931
Ernst von Salomon (1902–1972) écrivain allemand
français
Les réprouvés, 1931
“La religion de Mahomet est la plus belle.”
Napoléon Bonaparte (1769–1821) général, premier consul et empereur des Français
Sur la religion
Adam Smith (1723–1790) philosophe et économiste écossais (1723-1790)
en
Recherche sur la nature et les causes de la richesse des nations (1776), Livre I
Edith Stein (1891–1942) carmélite allemande d'origine juive, mystique, morte à Auschwitz, canonisée en 1999
Charité, Foi
“Mon éthique personnelle est infaillible. J’habite là où il y a le plus d’argent.”
Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) peintre, sculpteur, graveur, scénariste et écrivain catalan
Denis Diderot livre Essai sur les règnes de Claude et de Néron
Essai sur les règnes de Claude et de Néron
Adam Smith (1723–1790) philosophe et économiste écossais (1723-1790)
To take an example, therefore, from a very trifling manufacture; but one in which the division of labour has been very often taken notice of, the trade of the pin-maker; a workman not educated to this business (which the division of labour has rendered a distinct trade), nor acquainted with the use of the machinery employed in it (to the invention of which the same division of labour has probably given occasion), could scarce, perhaps, with his utmost industry, make one pin in a day, and certainly could not make twenty. But in the way in which this business is now carried on, not only the whole work is a peculiar trade, but it is divided into a number of branches, of which the greater part are likewise peculiar trades. One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving, the head; to make the head requires two or three distinct operations; to put it on is a peculiar business, to whiten the pins is another; it is even a trade by itself to put them into the paper; and the important business of making a pin is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen distinct operations, which, in some manufactories, are all performed by distinct hands, though in others the same man will sometimes perform two or three of them. I have seen a small manufactory of this kind where ten men only were employed, and where some of them consequently performed two or three distinct operations. But though they were very poor, and therefore but indifferently accommodated with the necessary machinery, they could, when they exerted themselves, make among them about twelve pounds of pins in a day. There are in a pound upwards of four thousand pins of a middling size. Those ten persons, therefore, could make among them upwards of forty-eight thousand pins in a day. Each person, therefore, making a tenth part of forty-eight thousand pins, might be considered as making four thousand eight hundred pins in a day. But if they had all wrought separately and independently, and without any of them having been educated to this peculiar business, they certainly could not each of them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in a day; that is, certainly, not the two hundred and fortieth, perhaps not the four thousand eight hundredth part of what they are at present capable of performing, in consequence of a proper division and combination of their different operations.
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Recherche sur la nature et les causes de la richesse des nations (1776), Livre I
Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002) paléontologue américain
Citations par thèmes, Science et pratiques scientifiques, Connaissance
“Plus un corps est faible, plus il commande; plus il est fort, plus il obéit.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau livre Émile ou De l'éducation
Emile or On Education
Émile, ou De l'éducation, 1762
Variante: Plus le corps est faible, plus il commande; plus il est fort, plus il obéit.
“Tous les animaux sont égaux mais certains sont plus égaux que d'autres.”
George Orwell livre La Ferme des animaux
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
en
La Ferme des animaux, 1945
Baruch Ashlag (1907–1991) rabbin polonais
To be integrated in one another, each person should annul himself before the others. This is done by each seeing the friends' merits and not their faults. But one who thinks that he is a little higher than the friends can no longer unite with them.
en
Articles
Jules César livre Commentaires sur la Guerre des Gaules
Horum omnium fortissimi sunt Belgae, propterea quod a cultu atque humanitate provinciae longissime absunt, minimeque ad eos mercatores saepe commeant atque ea quae ad effeminandos animos pertinent inportant, proximique sunt Germanis, qui trans Rhenum incolunt, quibuscum continenter bellum gerunt.
la
La Guerre des Gaules
Antoine Prost livre Douze leçons sur l'histoire
Douze leçons sur l'histoire, 1996, Chapitre 6 : Les concepts
“L'abnégation, la charité résultent le plus souvent d'un défaut de vie personnelle.”
Léon Blum (1872–1950) homme politique français
Nouvelles conversations de Goethe avec Eckermann, 1901
John Lennon (1940–1980) auteur-compositeur-interprète britannique
I suppose if I had said television was more popular than Jesus, I would have gotten away with it. I'm sorry I opened my mouth. I'm not anti-God, anti-Christ, or anti-religion. I wasn't knocking it or putting it down. I was just saying it as a fact and it's true more for England than here. I'm not saying that we're better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person or God as a thing or whatever it is. I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.
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Conférence de presse à Chicago, le 11 août 1966 en réponse et en excuses aux réactions outrées et violentes à travers les États-Unis suite à l’interview de l’Evening Standard.
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) pianiste, organiste et compositeur français de l'époque post-romantique
Regard sur mes contemporains, ed. 1990
Gustave Le Bon (1841–1931) anthropologue, psychologue social, sociologue et scientifique amateur français
La Civilisation des Arabes (1884)
Jacques Ellul (1912–1994) professeur d'histoire du droit, sociologue et théologien protestant français
, 1965
Richard Feynman (1918–1988) physicien américain
[...] we have always had (secret, secret, close the doors!) we have always have had a great deal of difficulty in understanding the world view that quantum mechanics represents. At least I do, because I'm an old enough man that I haven't got to the point that this stuff is obvious to me. Okay, I still get nervous with it. And therefore, some of the youngest students...you know how it always is, every new idea, it takes a generation or two until it becomes obvious that there's no real problem. It has not yet become obvious to me that there is no real problem. I cannot define the real problem, therefore I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem.
en
“Le plus clair de mon temps, dit Colin, je le passe à l'obscurcir.”
Boris Vian livre L'Écume des jours
L'Écume des jours
L'Écume des jours, 1947
Variante: Le plus clair de mon temps je le passe à l'obscurcir.
Jean Chrysostome (349–407) Père et docteur de l'Église, l'un des principaux théologiens de la patristique grecque, patriarche de Constan…
Sermon sur saint Matthieu
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881–1938) fondateur et le premier président de la République turque
Discours prononcé le 1 novembre 1936, devant le Parlement turc.
Discours
Gustave Le Bon (1841–1931) anthropologue, psychologue social, sociologue et scientifique amateur français
Psychologie des Foules
Noam Chomsky (1928) linguiste et philosophe américain
Comprendre le pouvoir. L'indispensable de Chomsky, 2006, Premier mouvement
Louis XIV (1638–1715) roi de France et de Navarre de 1643 à 1715
Mémoires pour l’instruction du Dauphin, Volume 2
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881–1938) fondateur et le premier président de la République turque
Discours prononcé le 14 juillet 1922, à l’ambassade de France.
Discours
Maximilien de Robespierre (1758–1794) homme politique français
Écrits et articles, Lettres de M. Robespierre à ses commettans, n° 1, [28, octobre, 1792]
Marc Lévy livre Les Enfants de la liberté
Les enfants de la liberté, Marc Lévy, Pocket, 2007, 119
Les enfants de la liberté, 2007
“On attrape plus de mouches avec de la merde qu'avec du miel.”
Harry Crews (1935–2012) écrivain américain
Des savons pour la vie, 1995
“Celui qui te raconte qu'il existe symphonie plus grande que le soufle qui t'anime te ment.”
Yasmina Khadra (1955) écrivain algérien
L'attentat
“Puis-je aller plus loin quand mon coeur est ici?”
William Shakespeare livre Roméo et Juliette
Romeo and Juliet
“Nous sommes notre plus grande surprise.”
Paulo Coelho livre Sur le bord de la rivière Piedra, je me suis assise et j'ai pleuré
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“Tout ce qui ne tue pas l'homme le rend plus fort.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) philologue, philosophe et poète allemand
Danielle Steel (1947) écrivain américaine
Danielle Steel (1947) écrivain américaine
“Garde tes amis près de toi, et tes ennemis encore plus près.”
Nicolas Machiavel (1469–1527) philosophe florentin
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) philosophe, compositeur et critique musical genevois
Emile or On Education
Chien-Caillou
“L’innocence, le plus souvent, est un bonheur et non pas une vertu.”
Anatole France (1844–1924) écrivain, biographe, journaliste et critique littéraire français
Variante: L'innocence, le plus souvent, est un bonheur et non pas une vertu.
“Laissez-vous mener. Nous n'avons plus l'âge des pourquoi.”
Louis Aragon (1897–1982) poète et romancier français
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) philosophe, romancière, épistolière, mémorialiste et essayiste française
Le deuxième sexe I