Quote of Bernard of Chartres - We are dwarfs perched on the...
Biography - Bernard of Chartres:
French Neo-Platonist philosopher, scholar, and administrator. (*Approximate years of birth and death).
Born: 1070 - Died: 1126
Period:
12th century
11th century
Place of birth: France
Born: 1070 - Died: 1126
Period:
12th century
11th century
Place of birth: France
We are dwarfs perched on the shoulders of giants. If we see more and farther than our predecessors, it is not because we have keener vision or greater height, but because we are lifted up and borne aloft on their gigantic stature.
Translation
(French, German, Latin)
Dicebat Bernardus Carnotensis nos esse quasi nanos, gigantium humeris insidentes, ut possimus plura eis et remotiora videre, non utique proprii visus acumine, aut eminentia corporis, sed quia in altum subvenimur et extollimur magnitudine gigantea.
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