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Non seulement les historiens qui vivent dans les siècles démocratiques sont entraînés à donner à chaque fait une grande cause, mais ils sont encore portés à lier les faits entre eux et à en faire sortir un système. Dans les siècles d’aristocratie, l’attention des historiens étant détournée à tous moments sur les individus, l’enchaînement des événem
... See moreNicolas Baverez • Le Monde selon Tocqueville: Combats pour la liberté (French Edition)
Personal isolation is gone through the growth of cities. Personal independence is gone through the dependence of the worker upon tools and capital that he does not own, and upon conditions that he cannot control. War becomes more consuming, and the individual is helpless to understand its causes or to escape its effects. Free land is gone, though h
... See moreAriel Durant • The Lessons of History
C’est ainsi, conclut-il dans un rapide résumé, c’est ainsi qu’aucune société composée d’esclaves ne peut durer. La vieille loi du développement est toujours valide. Comme je l’ai montré, dans la lutte pour l’existence les forts et leur progéniture tendent à survivre, alors que les faibles et leur progéniture sont écrasés et tendent à périr. En cons
... See morePhilippe Jaworski • Martin Eden (édition enrichie) (French Edition)
Capitalism has killed millions out of cold indifference coupled with greed.
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
As Americans live even longer with some regularity, the country may become wiser but less knowledgeable. And given that knowledge is essential to driving the cycles forward, the crisis of 2080 may well be built around the heavy weight of a large elderly population, in good health and filled with wisdom but unable to move beyond a cycle that’s faili
... See moreGeorge Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
— Will Durant
We live in an era of wealth and overabundance, but how bleak it is. There is “neither art nor philosophy,” Fukuyama says. All that’s left is the “perpetual caretaking of the museum of human history.”
Rutger Bregman • Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
The birth of science and the birth of democracy, therefore, have a common foundation: the discovery of the usefulness of criticism and dialogue among equals.
Carlo Rovelli • Anaximander: And the Birth of Science
The achievements of Athens in the time of Pericles are perhaps the most astonishing thing in all history. Until that time, Athens had lagged behind many other Greek cities; neither in art nor in literature had it produced any great man (except Solon, who was primarily a lawgiver). Suddenly, under the stimulus of victory and wealth and the need of r
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