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The Selected Writings of Pierre Hadot: Philosophy as Practice QUOTES

The Selected Writings of Pierre Hadot: Philosophy as Practice QUOTES

1 " Philosophical discourse does not want to sculpt statues ‘immobile on the pedestals’ [the beautiful statues which philosophical systems are, we can perhaps add, PH]. It rather aims at making everything it touches active, efficacious and alive; it wants to inspire the desire to act, judgements which generate useful acts … [and] engender greatness of soul.48 "

― Pierre Hadot , The Selected Writings of Pierre Hadot: Philosophy as Practice