Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Raymond Aron

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French philosopher Raymond Aron.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Raymond Claude Ferdinand Aron was a French philosopher, sociologist, political scientist, historian and journalist, one of France's most prominent thinkers of the 20th century.

French - Philosopher | March 14, 1905 - October 17, 1983

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Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.

Raymond Aron

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

Raymond Aron

In a way, all sociologists are akin to Marxists because of their inclination to settle everyone's accounts but their own.

Raymond Aron

Racism is the snobbery of the poor.

Raymond Aron

Peace is impossible, war is improbable.

Raymond Aron

Political thought in France is either nostalgic or Utopian.

Raymond Aron

Skepticism cannot be revolutionary, even though it speaks the language of revolution.

Raymond Aron

In writing if it takes over 30 minutes to write the first two paragraphs select another subject.

Raymond Aron

Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme.

Raymond Aron

Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than their preachings.

Raymond Aron

The intellectual who no longer feels attached to anything is not satisfied with opinion merely; he wants certainty, he wants a system. The revolution provides him with his opium.

Raymond Aron

Top 11 Quotes & Sayings by Raymond Aron

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