Philosophy Quote by Jean-François Lyotard — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.”

“El buen lector es que tiene casi constantemente la impresión de que no se ha enterado bien.”

“The certainty about the uncertain (in view to life) is that it will remain uncertain till the time its certain.”

“A false-statement requires deceit and distortion for someone to buy it, but a truthful-statement sells itself.”

“Waves of hands, hesitations at street corners, someone dropping a cigarette into the gutter-all are stories. But which is the true story? That I do not know. Hence I keep my phrases hung like clothes in a cupboard, waiting for some one to wear them. Thus waiting, thus speculating, making this note and then an· other I do not cling to life. I shall be brushed like a bee from a sunflower. My philosophy, always accumulating, welling up moment by moment, runs like quicksilver a dozen ways at once.”

“When Leo Strauss disparages a world that is merely entertaining and interesting, he does so because the men in that world remain far beneath the potential of their nature and are capable of actualizing neither their most noble nor their most excellent faculties. He rejects the illusory security of a status quo of comfort and ease because a life that does not subject itself to the danger of radical questioning and the exertion of self-examination appears to him to be not worth living. A comfortable, cosy interior hinders liberation from the cave and ascent into the open. Strauss rejects the homogeneous world-state because he recognizes it as the state of Nietzsche's "last man" and because he sees the end of the particular political community as followed by the end of philosophy on earth.”