Pierre Hadot Quotes on Time
Pierre Hadot was a French philosopher and historian of ancient thought. This page collects quotes attributed to Pierre Hadot on the topic of time, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Pierre Hadot:
“We must learn to live the present, but the present is everything.”
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“To my eyes, only the ascesis of scientific rigor, this detachment from oneself which requires an objective and impartial judgment, can give us the right to implicate ourselves in history, to give it an existential sense. Preface to Nietzsche : Essai de mythologie (1990) by E. Bertram, p. 34”
À mes yeux, c’est seulement l’ascèse de la rigueur scientifique, ce détachement de soi qu’exige un jugement objectif et impartial, qui pourra nous donner le droit de nous impliquer nous-mêmes dans l’histoire, de lui donner un sens existentiel. -
“It is misinterpretation and incomprehension which, very often, provoked an important evolution in the history of philosophy and which, notably, led to the appearance of new notions.”
Ce sont les contresens et les incompréhensions qui, très souvent, ont provoqué une évolution importante dans l’histoire de la philosophie, et qui, notamment, ont fait apparaître des notions nouvelles. -
“It is precisely because the Epicurean considered existence to be the result of pure chance that he greeted each moment with immense gratitude, like a kind of divine miracle.”
La Philosophie comme manière de vivre(2001) | trans. Michael Chase (1995), p. 252