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Benjamin Constant
Data di nascita:25. Ottobre 1767
Data di morte:8. Dicembre 1830
Altri nomi:Henri Benjamin Constant De Rebecque
Benjamin Constant era scrittore, politico.
Frasi Benjamin Constant
„L'Inghilterra non è, in fondo, che una vasta, opulenta e vigorosa aristocrazia.“
— Benjamin Constant
1830, vol. I, p. 23; citato in Losurdo 2005, p. 122
„I detest that fatuity of mind which believes that what is explained is also excused; I hate that vanity which finds it interesting to describe the harm that it has done, and asks to be pitied at the end of its recital, and, as it patrols with impunity among the ruins for which it is responsible, gives to self-analysis the time which should be given to repentance.“
— Benjamin Constant
Adolphe
„It is true that love is a feeling one places, whenever one feels the need of placing it, on the first object that happens along“
— Benjamin Constant
Journal intime de Benjamin Constant et lettres à sa famille et à ses amis
„If political authority is not limited, the division of powers, ordinarily the guarantee of freedom, becomes a danger and a scourge.“
— Benjamin Constant
Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments
„The actions of government, we are told, bear down only on imprudent souls who provoke them. The man who resigns himself and keeps silent is always safe. Reassured by this worthless and specious argument, we do not protest against the oppressors. Instead we find fault with the victims. Nobody knows how to be brave even prudentially. Everyone stays silent, keeping his head low in the self-deceiving hope of disarming the powers that be by his silence. People give despotism free access, flattering themselves they will be treated with consideration. Eyes to the ground, each person walks in silence the narrow path leading him safely to the tomb.“
— Benjamin Constant
Principles of Politics Applicable to All Governments
„Consoler of our misery, religion is at the same time the most natural of our emotions. Unknown to us, all our physical sensations, all our moral feelings, awake it in our hearts. All that appears to us without limits, and that generates the notion of immensity - the sight of the sky, the silence of the night, the vast extent of the seas- all that leads us to tenderness or to enthusiasm - the consciousness of a virtuous action, of a generous sacrifice, of a danger bravely confronted, of the pain of another aided or comforted - all that stirs up in the depths our soul the primitive elements of our nature - the contempt for vice, the hatred of tyranny - feed our religious feeling.
This feeling is intimately connected with all the noble, delicate and deep passions. Kike all these passions, it has something mysterious about it: for common reason cannot satisfactorily explain any of these passions.“
— Benjamin Constant
Political Writings
„There is indeed in the contemplation of beauty of any kind, something which detaches us from ourselves by making us feel that perfection is worth more than we are; and that, through this conviction, by inspiring us with a momentary disinterestedness, awakens in us the power of sacrifice, which is the source of all virtues. There is in emotion, whatever its cause, something which makes our blood flow faster, which communicates to us a kind of wellbeing which doubles the sense of our existence and our powers, and that, by doing so, renders us capable of a greater generosity, courage, or sympathy, than we normally feel. Even a corrupt man is better when he is moved and as long as he is moved.“
— Benjamin Constant
Political Writings
