Selected Writings of Pierre Hadot, The Quotes

“Philosophical discourse does not want to sculpt statues ‘immobile on the pedestals’ [the beautiful statues which philosophical systems are, we can perhaps add, PH]. It rather aims at making everything it touches active, efficacious and alive; it wants to inspire the desire to act, judgements which generate useful acts … [and] engender greatness of soul.48”
― Pierre Hadot, The Selected Writings of Pierre Hadot: Philosophy as Practice