“The true clerc is Vauvenargues, Lamarck, Fresnel, Spinoza, Schiller, Baudelaire, César Franck, who were never diverted from single-hearted adoration of the beautiful and the divine by the necessity of earning their daily bread. But such clercs are inevitably rare. The rule is that the living creature condemned to struggle for life turns to practical passions, and thence to the sanctifying of those passions.”
Quote by Julien Benda
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Julien Benda
Julien Benda was a French philosopher born on December 26, 1867, and died on June 7, 1956. His philosophical thoughts were deeply influenced by German classical philosophy and the French philosophical tradition, particularly focusing on moral philosophy and aesthetics. more