Atheism is a way of humility. It's to think oneself to be an animal, as we are actually and to allow oneself to become human.
André Comte-SponvilleTags: ethics philosophy
Freedom of thought is the only good that is perhaps more precious than peace, for the simple reason that, without it, peace would merely be another name of servitude.
André Comte-SponvilleEl hombre sencillo no se toma en serio ni trágicamente. Sigue su camino con el corazón ligero y el alma en paz, sin meta, sin nostalgia, sin impaciencia. Su reino es el mundo y le basta. Su eternidad es el presente y lo colma. No tiene nada que demostrar, puesto que no quiere aparentar nada. Ni nada que buscar puesto que todo está ahí.
André Comte-SponvilleKant provides a more helpful answer. For him, these first semblances of virtue can be explained in terms of discipline, in other words, as a product of external constraint: what the child cannot do on his own because he has no instinct for it “others have to do … for him,” and in this way “one generation educates the next.
André Comte-SponvilleTags: politeness-education
Don’t say bad words; don’t interrupt people; don’t shove; don’t steal; don’t lie. To the child, all these prohibitions appear identical (“It’s not nice”). The distinction between the ethical and the aesthetic will come only later, and gradually. Politeness thus precedes morality, or rather, morality at first is nothing more than politeness: a compliance with usage and its established rules, with the normative play of appearances—a compliance with the world and the ways of the world.
André Comte-SponvilleTags: morality-vs-politeness
La liberté de l'esprit est le seul bien, peut-être, qui soit plus précieux que la paix. C'est que la paix, sans elle, n'est que servitude.
André Comte-SponvilleTags: freedom philosophy peace freedom-of-thought philosophie liberté servitude liberté-de-pensée paix
Le bonheur n'est pas une chose; c'est une pensée. Ce n'est pas un fait; c'est une invention. Ce n'est pas un état; c'est une action.
Disons le mot: le bonheur est création.[...] C'est une praxis, disait- Aristote, et point une poiésis.
Tags: action invention bonheur pensée
Mon but n'est pas de penser neuf mais de penser juste.
André Comte-SponvilleNo, what worries me, I readily admit, is everything (that is to say, anything and everything) - everything, that is, except the All, which I find soothing.
André Comte-SponvilleEspérer , c'est désirer sans jouir , sans savoir et sans pouvoir
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