Aleksei Losev Quotes
Aleksei Losev was a Russian philosopher, classicist, and historian of philosophy, the last great Russian neoplatonist of the Silver Age, who survived imprisonment in the Stalinist labor camps and lived to become the dean of Soviet-era classical scholarship. His early The Philosophy of the Name, written in the imiaslavtsy controversy on the divinity of the divine name, developed a sweeping ontological theory of the word, while his eight-volume History of Ancient Aesthetics offered the most thorough treatment of ancient Greek philosophy of beauty in any language. The quotes below are attributed to Aleksei Losev, organized by topic.
Aleksei Losev on God
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Attributed to Aleksei Losev:
“The Name is the door through which spirit and being meet.”
Aleksei Losev on Knowledge
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Attributed to Aleksei Losev:
“Myth is not a defective form of knowledge; it is its own form of intelligibility.”
Aleksei Losev on Mind
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Attributed to Aleksei Losev:
“The word is the meeting place of being and the soul.”
Aleksei Losev on Truth
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Attributed to Aleksei Losev:
“Beauty in the Greek world is the form in which truth makes itself visible.”
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Attributed to Aleksei Losev:
“Dialectics is not a method imposed on reality; it is reality thinking itself.”