>>1123128
Who's next?

Portraits > Photographs

If I ever get rich I'm going to commission someone to paint me as a stately 18th century gentleman.

>I HAVE before observed, that whatever is qualified to cause terror is a foundation capable of the sublime; to which I add, that not only these, but many things from which we cannot probably apprehend any danger, have a similar effect, because they operate in a similar manner.
-Burke

>I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.
-Paine

You tell me, OP

>>1124201
So Paine was enlightened by his own intelligence?

>>1124201
Paine.

>>1125839
I'd rather be enlightened by my own intelligence than be a Christposter who has nothing better to do but shitpost in philosophy threads all day.

>>1125829
Hume isn't a political philosopher

>>1123128
There is no victory.
Right and left were christened as such in the French Revolution.

But if you study Roman history, there were polical figures who were populist or elitist.
The struggle of liberty vs control.