Aleksei Losev Quotes on Truth
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. This page collects quotes attributed to Aleksei Losev on the topic of truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Aleksei Losev:
“The word is the meeting place of being and the soul.”
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Attributed to Aleksei Losev:
“Myth is not a defective form of knowledge; it is its own form of intelligibility.”
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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.”