No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.
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Nationality: French Type: Philosopher Born: July 15, 1930 Death: October 8, 2004 |
“One wants one's work to be the world, but of course it's never the world. The work is in the world; it never contains the whole thing.”
“The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.”