Goncourt, Jules Alfred Huot de

French artist and novelist

co-wrote novels "Manetts Salomon" 1867, "Madame Lacerteux" 1865 with Edmond de Goncourt

brother of Edmond de Goncourt

• "The fact that people have religious experiences is interesting from the psychological point of view, but it does not in any way imply that there is such a thing as religious knowledge...Unless he can formulate this'knowledge'in propositions that are empirically verifiable, we may be sure that he is deceiving himself."