„How much easier it is to defend noble causes from afar than to practice those professed virtues oneself. The love of what is distant costs the individual less than the love of what is near.“ (p. 28) #Todorov #NobleCauses #virtues
„Solitude is not contrary to the state of nature but to the nature of man such as he really exists, that is, in society.“ (p. 58) #Todorov #solitude #society
„What, then, is the inherent defect of patriotism? In preferring one part of humanity to the rest, the citizen transgresses a fundamental principle, that of equality. Without explicitly saying it, he accepts the notion that men are not equal.“ (p. 29) #Todorov #patriotism #equality
„Les propriétés des systèmes symboliques découlent logiquement de la définition du symbole.“ (p. 281) #Todorov #SystèmesSymboliques
„Remarquons que le signe est fait ici comme chez Saussure, non du son et de la chose, mais de deux impressions mentales.“ (p. 103) #Todorov #Saussure #signe