Giorgio Colli Quotes on Knowledge
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. This page collects quotes attributed to Giorgio Colli on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
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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“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