Gabriel Tarde Quotes on Knowledge
Jean-Gabriel de Tarde was a French sociologist, criminologist, and social philosopher, and the chief rival of Emile Durkheim in the foundation of French sociology. This page collects quotes attributed to Gabriel Tarde on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“Being is - or should be - necessary.”
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“When the pessimist Besme says in La Ville that nothing is, he means precisely this, that there is no experience that withstands the analytical test.”
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“No doubt I shall be told: "In the immense majority of cases this is an illusion." But it is of the essence of hope to exlclude the consideration of cases; moreover, it can be shown that there exists an ascedning dialectic of hope, whereby hope rises to a plane which transcends the level of all possible empirical disproof - the plane of salvation as opposed to that of success in whatever form”
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“speaking metaphysically, the only genuine hope is hope in what does not depend on ourselves, hope springing from humility and not from pride.”
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