About Raymond Aron: Raymond-Claude-Ferdinand Aron was a French philosopher, sociologist, journalist, and political scientist.
What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.
Europeans would like to escape from their history, a "great" history written in letters of blood. But others, by the hundreds of millions, are taking it up for the first time, or coming back to it.
Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.