Quotes About Philippe Ariès

According to Philippe Ariès, "the interdiction of death in order to preserve happiness was born in the United States around the beginning of the twentieth century.

The historian Philippe Aries puts it like this: "Family feelings, feelings of class, and perhaps in some cases of race are manifestations of the same intolerance of diversity, of the same need for uniformity.

Philippe Ariès, in The Hour of Our Death, points out that the essential characteristic of death as it appears in the Chanson de Roland is that the death, even if sudden or accidental, "gives advance warning of its arrival.