2009, Speech: The Socio-Economic Peace Program of Senator Francis Escudero
Ce que les poètes, les orateurs, même quelques philosophes nous disent sur l'amour de la Gloire, on nous le disait au Collège, pour nous encourager à avoir les prix. Ce que l'on dit aux enfants pour les engager à préférer à une tartelette les louanges de leurs bonnes, c'est ce qu'on répète aux hommes pour leur faire préférer à un intérêt personnel les éloges de leurs contemporains ou de la postérité.
Maximes et Pensées, #85
Reflections
“Our concern with environment cannot be reduced to what can be used, to what can be grasped.”
Source: Who Is Man? (1965), Ch. 5<!-- The sense of the ineffable, p. 88 -->
Context: Our concern with environment cannot be reduced to what can be used, to what can be grasped. Environment includes not only the inkstand and the blotting paper, but also the impenetrable stillness in the air, the stars, the clouds, the quiet passing of time, the wonder of my own being. I am an end as well as a means, and so is the world: an end as well as a means. My view of the world and my understanding of the self determine each other. The complete manipulation of the world results in the complete instrumentalization of the self.
Source: Priest receives top environmental award https://www.ucanews.com/news/priest-receives-top-environmental-award/52279 (6 June 2012)
The Big Picture, 1996
1990s, 1990
Source: [Pierce, 1976-2002, 125]
“Let us be dreamers, thinkers, speculative philosophers, or as our spouses would have it: Idiots”
Variant: He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
