18 November

Born in 1913 – Endre Rozsda, Hungarian-French painter.

Above: Tower of Babel, 1958

Also, born in 1647, French philosopher and writer Pierre Bayle.

Reason is like a runner who doesn’t know that the race is over, or, like Penelope, constantly undoing what it creates...It is better suited to pulling things down than to building them up, and better at discovering what things are not, than what they are.

Previously on November 18, Rozsda & Howard Thurman.