Robert Briffault Quotes

• The Renaissance of Europe did not take place in the 15th century. Rather it began when Europe learned from the culture of the Arabs. The cradle of European awakening is not Italy. It is the Muslim Spain.

  Robert Briffault

  Europe, Spain, Culture

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• The female, not the male, determines all the conditions of the animal family. Where the female can derive no benefit from association with the male, no such association takes place.

  Robert Briffault

  Animal, Males, Female

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• La democracia es la peor forma de gobierno. Es la más ineficaz, la más torpe, la más impracticable.... Reduce la sabiduría a la impotencia y asegura el triunfo de la insensatez, la ignorancia, la charlatanería y la demagogia.... Sin embargo, la democracia es la única forma de orden social admisible, porque es la única compatible con la justicia.

  Robert Briffault

  Ignorance, Government, Order

  Rational Evolution (The Making of Humanity) ch. 15 (1930) SeeWinston Churchill 34

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• For a male and female to live continuously together is biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition.

  Robert Briffault

  Marriage, Together, Males

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• El infierno del sufrimiento humano, del mal y de la opresión está empedrado de buenas intenciones. Los hombres que más han herido y oprimido a la humanidad, que más profundamente han pecado contra ella, eran, según sus criterios y su conciencia, hombres buenos; lo que había de malo en ellos, lo que causaba maldad moral y crueldad, traición a la verdad y al progreso, no estaba en absoluto en sus intenciones, en su propósito, en su carácter personal, sino en sus opiniones.

  Robert Briffault

  Character, Men, Evil

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• For although there is not a single aspect of European growth in which the decisive influence of Islamic culture is not traceable, nowhere is it so clear and momentous as in the genesis of that power which constitutes the permanent distinctive force of the modern world, and the supreme source of its victory, natural science and the scientific spirit.

  Robert Briffault

  Islamic, Growth, Victory

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• Absolutism is a guarantee of objectionable morals in the same way that absolutism in government is a guarantee of objectionable government.

  Robert Briffault

  Government, Absolutism, Guarantees

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• In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that _men_ know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is _look_ at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop; eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home.

  Robert Briffault

  Running, Jobs, Taken

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• The effects of infantile instruction are, like those of syphilis, never completely cured.

  Robert Briffault

  Education, Syphilis, Instruction

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• No myth of miraculous creation is so marvelous as the face of man's evolution.

  Robert Briffault

  Men, Faces, Evolution

  Robert Briffault (1930). “Rational Evolution: (the Making of Humanity)”

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• El ser humano moderno adulto que sólo busca refugio encuentra en cambio aburrimiento y disolución mental, a menos que pueda ser, incluso en su retraimiento, creativo. Sólo puede encontrar la calidad de la felicidad en la tensión y el esfuerzo del logro y el crecimiento. Y es consciente de alcanzar la cima más alta de la plenitud que exigen sus impulsos vitales cuando se consume al servicio de una idea, en la conquista de la meta perseguida.

  Robert Briffault

  Life, Ideas, Goal

  Robert Briffault (1969). “Reasons for anger”, Books for Libraries

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• The full-grown modern human being ... is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of the goal pursued.

  Robert Briffault

  Ideas, Goal, Touching

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• The old fellow who was cadging drinks from me the other night at the Cafe Royal told me he had known Julian Bern's people in the old days at Rome.

  Robert Briffault

  Book, Night, Rome

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