“ If the individual can know nothing, why should all individuals know more? ”
Gustave Flaubert, Bouvard et Pécuchet (1881). copy citation
| Author | Gustave Flaubert |
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| Source | Bouvard et Pécuchet |
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| Date | 1881 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/25014/25014-h/25014-h.htm |
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“"A promenade would be salutary," "This is the hour for absorbing aliments," "I experience a necessity for disburdenment."
Once masters of logic, they passed in review the different criterions; first, that of common sense.
If the individual can know nothing, why should all individuals know more? An error, were it a hundred thousand years old, does not by the mere fact of its being old constitute truth. The multitude invariably pursues the path of routine. It is, on the contrary, the few who are guided by progress.”
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