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Jean-Marie Guyau Quotes

1854–1888 France

Jean-Marie Guyau (28 October 1854 – 31 March 1888) was a French philosopher.

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The only means of being great in life is having the consciousness that you will not retreat before death.

One must see there the living forces that demand to be expended, and we must act.

For what idea, for what person would I be ready to risk my life?

The future is not what is coming at us, but what we are headed for.

The purely selfish happiness of certain Epicureans is a chimera, an abstraction, an impossibility; the true human pleasures are all more or less social. Pure egoism, rather than being an affirmation of the self, is a mutilation of the self.

Outline of a Morality Without Obligation or Sanction (1885)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jean-Marie Guyau (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.