Christian Garve Quotes
Christian Garve was a German philosopher of the late Enlightenment and one of the most widely read German Popularphilosophen of his generation. After a brief professorship at Leipzig, he spent his career as a private scholar in Breslau, where he produced a long series of moral and popular philosophical essays and translated Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Cicero's De Officiis, and Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations into elegant German. The quotes below are attributed to Christian Garve, organized by topic.
Christian Garve on Knowledge
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Attributed to Christian Garve:
“Philosophy must speak in the language of educated humanity.”
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“Translation is the labor of philosophy across cultures.”
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“What is most subtle in metaphysics must still bear on practice.”
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Attributed to Christian Garve:
“Common sense is the soil in which higher reasoning takes root.”
Christian Garve on Virtue
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Attributed to Christian Garve:
“Moral feelings are the seedbed in which moral principles grow.”