Bernard de Chartres

Bernard de Chartres (d. c. 1130) was a French philosopher and humanist. He was head of the celebrated school of Chartres, in France, that attempted to reconcile the thought of Plato with that of Aristotle.

Wisdom & Quotes

• We are like dwarves upon the shoulders of giants, and so able to see more and farther than the ancients.

- quoted in John of Salisbury ( Metalogicon )

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Bernard de Mandeville, Bernard of Menthon, Bernard of Morlaix, Bernard Palissy, Bernard Rudofsky