Quote of Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Clarity is the good faith of...

Biography - Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues:

French writer and moralist.
Born: 1715 - Died: 1747
Period:
18th century
Place of birth: France
France

Source: Reflexions and Maxims

Quote

Clarity is the good faith of philosophers.”
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

Note

Maxim 729

Translation

(German, French)

Klarheit ist die Ehrlichkeit der Philosophen.”
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Réflexions et maximes

La clarté est la bonne foi des philosophes.”
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Réflexions et maximes

Quotes about clarity:

What can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-philosophicus

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside, awakes.”
Carl Gustav Jung

Quotes for: philosopher:

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.”
Karl Marx - Theses on Feuerbach

Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.”
Bertrand Russell - The Problems of Philosophy

The beard does not make the philosopher.”

philosopher

To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

For there was never yet philosopher
That could endure the toothache patiently.”
William Shakespeare

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues also said...

No man is weak by choice.”
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.”
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

good

Consciousness of our powers augments them.”
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

strength

Great thoughts come from the heart.”
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

Few maxims are true in every respect.”
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

Reason does not know the interests of the heart.”
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

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