Jean Wahl Quotes on Freedom
Jean Andre Wahl was a French philosopher and poet and the principal channel by which Hegel, Kierkegaard, and the wider current of existentialism reached French philosophical education in the years before and after the Second World War. This page collects quotes attributed to Jean Wahl on the topic of freedom, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Jean Wahl:
“Hegel's spirit only lives where it is read against itself.”
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Attributed to Jean Wahl:
“Existentialism is the discovery that thought belongs to a singular life.”
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Attributed to Jean Wahl:
“Kierkegaard taught us that to philosophize is to choose.”
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“Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom .”
L'imagination ( Imagination: A Psychological Critique ) (1936) -
“He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being.”
L'âge de raison ( The Age of Reason ) (1945)