#montesquieu

[decaffeinatedcrack]

Who's your favorite philosopher of the enlightenment? Locke? Voltaire? Rousseau? WRONG.

Diderot is the greatest philosopher of the enlightenment because he was the only one who did shit.

Voltaire was all bark no bite, Locke had his head so far up his optimistic ass that he couldn't have implemented any of his ideas if he tried, and Rousseau was Rousseau.

All of the enlightened philosophers believed in and advocated for equal education yet Diderot was the only person to actually provide it.

With his Encyclopedia he managed to distribute knowledge regardless of social class. It started out only for the rich but with modified versions, thinner paper and less pictures, he was able to make it cheaper and available to all. It became a household item that could teach people anything they needed to know.

Was it free schooling? No. But, as a commoner, it was both the most he could do and the biggest step towards indiscrimant education that any philosopher had ever taken.

Diderot is THE best philosopher of the enlightenment, period.

#thank you for coming to this ted talk #and this is obvi my opinion #there are no correct answers #but there is a wrong one and that's Rousseau #If your FAVORITE enlightenment philosopher is Rousseau then get help #denis diderot #voltaire #john locke #montesquieu #forgot to mention him #jean Jaques Rousseau #the enlightenment

[vardirbirsebebi]

"Laf yetiştirmekten kendini yetiştirmeyi unutmuş insanlar var."

#montesquieu #kitaptan alıntı #kitaptansözler #kitaptavsiyesi #kitapönerisi #kitapkurdu #alınti #alıntı #kitap alıntıları #kitap #kitaplar #kitaplik #kitap okumak #kitaplık #kitap alintilari #kitap alıntısı #edebi sözler #edebi yazılar #edebiyat #insanlar #yanlış insan #unutmak

[philosophybits]

The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles.

Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws

#philosophy #quotes #Montesquieu #The Spirit of the Laws #government #principles #law #politics

[civcivwq21]

"Okumayı sevmek,hayattaki can sıkıcı saatleri en güzel saatlerle değiştirmektir."

#montesquieu #alintilarim

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Une heure de lecture est le souverain remède contre les dégoûts de la vie.

- Montesquieu

#montesquieu #quote #french #literature #books #reading #femme #beauty #life #reading is therapy

[without-ado]

"The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice."

—Montesquieu

#quotes #montesquieu #words #tyranny #french #political philosophy

[whencyclopedia]

Montesquieu

Montesquieu (1689-1757) was a French philosopher whose ideas in works like The Spirit of the Laws helped launch the Enlightenment movement in Europe. His ideas on the separation of powers, that is, between the executive, legislative, and judiciary, were influential on other Enlightenment thinkers and on the 13 colonies that became the United States of America.

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#History #Philosophy #Montesquieu #Enlightenment

[triptoartsworld]

Ayrı ayrı birer ahlâksız olan insanlar,

toplu oldukları zaman namuslu kişiler olurlar.

Montesquieu

#triptoartsworld #montesquieu

[majestativa]

To Racine, who taught me to tighten a sentence till it wept to Pascal, from whom I learned to doubt the perceptible and to be sure only of the imperceptible to insatiable Rabelais to Montesquieu, geographer of thought to melancholy Baudelaire to Georges Schéhadé, the magician to Céline, at once grandiose and base.

— Vénus Khoury-Ghata, She Says, transl by Marilyn Hacker, (2003)

#Lebanese #Vénus Khoury-Ghata #She Says #Marilyn Hacker #(2003) #Jean Racine #Blaise Pascal #Montesquieu #Charles Baudelaire #Georges Schéhadé #Louis-Ferdinand Céline #Essence #♥

[philosophybitmaps]

#philosophy #quotes #Montesquieu #Persian Letters #truth #feelings #emotions #morality #ethics

[ce-sac-contient]

Hermann Nitsch (1938-2022) - Untitled, 1995

Oil on burlap with chemise and impasto (200 x 300 cm)

❝ Il n’y a point de plus cruelle tyrannie que celle que l’on exerce à l’ombre des lois et avec les couleurs de la justice, lorsqu’on va, pour ainsi dire, noyer des malheureux sur la planche même sur laquelle ils s’étaient sauvés. ❞

—  Montesquieu, Considérations sur les causes de la grandeur des Romains et de leur décadence (1734)

#Hermann Nitsch #Montesquieu #tyranny

[vaevictis2]

Je m'éveille la matin avec une joie secrète de voir la lumière ; je vois la lumière avec une espèce de ravissement ; et tout le reste du jour je suis content

Charles-Louis de Secondat de Montesquieu - Pensées Diverses

#Montesquieu

[kiki-de-la-petite-flaque]

C'est une chose extraordinaire Que toute la philosophie Consiste dans ces trois mots: JE M'EN FOUS.

Montesquieu

#Montesquieu #Charles-Louis de Secondat barone di La Brède e di Montesquieu

[philosophybits]

A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.

Montesquieu, Persian Letters

#philosophy #quotes #Montesquieu #Persian Letters #life #sadness #grief #sorrow #humanity

[szepkerekkocka]

#dr. sándor zsuzsa #Montesquieu #orbán viktor #btk #erdélyi ákos #somos andrás #dr garai renáta #frech ágnes #zsanett-ügy #be #sófi-ügy #diós erzsébet

[maklodes]

There’s this vibe in Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Revolt of Islam / The Clash’s Rock the Casbah / Montesquieu’s Persian Letters where the message is “Our main concern is the oppressiveness and hypocrisy of our own Western society, and we’re mainly talking about exotic eastern Islamic society as a way of critiquing our own society’s flaws, buuuut let’s be real, we do in fact think Muslim societies are pretty much oppressive hellholes.”

#islam #percy bysshe shelley #the revolt of islam #the clash #rock the casbah #montesquieu #persian letters