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Ian O’Shaughnessy

Quotes · Antoine de Rivarol

“Since it is above all the analytical attitude which predominates in philosophy, its latest disciples have everywhere been engaged in dissolving and decomposing. In physics, they have found nothing but objections to make to the author of nature. In metaphysics, they have found nothing but doubts and subtleties. Ethics and logic have provided them with nothing but harangues against the political order, against religious ideas and against the laws of property. They have aspired to nothing less than the reconstruction of everything, by means of a revolt against everything. And without remembering that they themselves are in the world, they have torn down the pillars that support the world.”

– Antoine de Rivarol, De La Philosophie Moderne, 1802

From volume IV of the file · Book · 19th century

Themes: liberalism & modernity · philosophy · tradition & conservatism