Giorgio Colli Quotes on Knowledge
Giorgio Colli (1917–1979), the Italian classicist and philosopher whose collaboration with Mazzino Montinari produced the standard critical edition of Nietzsche's complete works, defended in the late La nascita della filosofia (The Birth of Philosophy, 1975) a reconstructive interpretation of pre-Socratic thought according to which the philosophical activity of Greece is the heir of an older sapiential tradition (sophia) rooted in mantic, mystical, and agonistic practices. The framework presses the case that the rational discourse of the philosophers preserves, in transformed form, the contradictions and enigmas of an oracular wisdom whose dialectical structure prefigures the disputational philosophy that follows.
Quotes
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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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Attributed to Giorgio Colli:
“Nietzsche is not the destroyer of philosophy; he is its most relentless practitioner.”
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Attributed to Giorgio Colli:
“Wisdom is older than philosophy and outlives it.”
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Attributed to Giorgio Colli:
“The pre-Socratics did not invent reason; they inherited it from a religious tradition we have forgotten.”
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Attributed to Giorgio Colli:
“To philosophize is to take seriously what older traditions have always known.”
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