Phares: 24 destins / Lighthouses: 24 destinies
"Here are twenty-four characters whose fates are more insane, richer in vicissitudes and contradictions than those of the heroes of any novel. Twenty-four discoverers, artists, philosophers, rebels, utopians who gave meaning to the future of the world. Each of them tries to answer the same question: how do you become when all is leagued to prevent you? All are not models; Nevertheless, they guide me to the shelter, the refuge, the port. They are glimmers in the night of ignorance, blindness or helplessness. Sources of jubilation too, by what they say about the greatness of the Spirit. It is of these that I will tell the adventures. These are the ones I'm betting on, whose company will soon be the most sought after: our world needs lighthouses. »JA
Confucius, Aristotle, Aśoka, Boethius, Hildegard of Bingen, Ibn Rushd, Maimonides, Thomas Aquinas, Giordano Bruno, Caravaggio, Thomas Hobbes, Madame de Stael, Simon Bolivar, Charles Darwin, Abd el-Kader, Walt Whitman, Shrimad Rajchandra , Emperor Meiji, Walther Rathenau, Thomas Edison, Marina Tsvetayeva, Richard Strauss, Ho Chi Minh, Amadou Hampâté Bâ
