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Quotes from The Myth of Modernity — Charles Baudouin

d. 1963 France

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The first of men did no more than take the fruit of the tree, and that, we are told, was sin. Modern humanity "tortures the tree in order the sooner to obtain its fruit."

The Myth of Modernity (1946)

To have lived a full life is to have learned to love, that is, to give greatly. It is to have learned how to make the gesture that some scholars have called oblative, opposing this term to captative; as though contrasting the gesture of offering with the gesture of seizing.

The Myth of Modernity (1946)

The vulgarity of the myth of modernity is plainly revealed by the preeminence in its mythology of the factors of quantity; to be modern is always to beat the record in some respect. Distinction, therefore, is opposed to modernity as quality is to quantity.

The Myth of Modernity (1946)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Charles Baudouin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.