Benjamin Constant Quotes on Knowledge
Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque was a Swiss-French political philosopher, novelist, and statesman and one of the founding theorists of modern liberalism. This page collects quotes attributed to Benjamin Constant on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“Je ne suis pas la rose, mais j’ai vécu avec elle.”
Translation: I am not the rose, but I have lived near it. | A. Hayward, Autobiography and Letters of Mrs. Piozzi, Introduction. -
“Translation: I am not the rose, but I have lived near it.”
Je ne suis pas la rose, mais j’ai vécu avec elle. -
“A. Hayward, Autobiography and Letters of Mrs. Piozzi, Introduction.”
Je ne suis pas la rose, mais j’ai vécu avec elle. -
“Quoted in Robert Tombs, France 1814–1914 , 62.”
Diversity is life; uniformity is death.