Jean Wahl Quotes on Truth
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 truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Jean Wahl:
“Philosophy must remain in contact with the concrete, however far it ventures.”
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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:
“Kierkegaard taught us that to philosophize is to choose.”
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Attributed to Jean Wahl:
“Poetry is the philosophical act that knows itself.”