Giorgio Colli Quotes
Giorgio Colli was an Italian philosopher and classicist, professor at the University of Pisa, and the co-editor with Mazzino Montinari of the critical edition of Nietzsche's complete works. His major book, The Birth of Philosophy, reread the early Greek philosophers, against the standard scholarly account, as continuators of an older Apollonian-Dionysian wisdom tradition that begins not in the speculative cosmologies of Miletus but in the agonistic riddle-contests of the seers and the mysteries. The quotes below are attributed to Giorgio Colli, organized by topic.
Giorgio Colli on Knowledge
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Attributed to Giorgio Colli:
“Greek philosophy did not begin in wonder at nature; it began in the agon of the riddle.”
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“Wisdom is older than philosophy and outlives it.”
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“The pre-Socratics did not invent reason; they inherited it from a religious tradition we have forgotten.”
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“To philosophize is to take seriously what older traditions have always known.”
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“Germany the great,an esoteric dream (October 2004) 30 Days”
I don't believe that the representative democracy can be put into crisis by authoritarian movements like those of the twenties and thirties. There is however the danger that in the western democracies the forms of democracy are kept up without the substance. Political parties won't be banned any longer, civil liberties will be guaranteed to a certain extent but, at the same time, there could be th
Giorgio Colli on Politics
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“I don't believe that the representative democracy can be put into crisis by authoritarian movements like those of the twenties and thirties. There is however the danger that in the western democracies the forms of democracy are kept up without the substance. Political parties won't be banned any longer, civil liberties will be guaranteed to a certain extent but, at the same time, there could be the danger that only the formulas of democracy remain and the substance disappears.”
Germany the great,an esoteric dream (October 2004) 30 Days
Giorgio Colli on Truth
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Attributed to Giorgio Colli:
“Nietzsche is not the destroyer of philosophy; he is its most relentless practitioner.”