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Nicola Abbagnano Quotes

1901–1990 Italy

Nicola Abbagnano (1901 – 1990) was an Italian existential philosopher.

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The ideal of reason that had emerged in the modern world with Grotius and Descartes found one of its first typical expressions in Spinoza.

To discover the authentic objectivity of the world, man must not think of the world as a part of himself, but must feel himself as a part of the world.

The final situation of the effort towards being realises its essential unity with the initial situation.

Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find its place in logic.

Only those who isolate themselves from themselves and from their neighbours are truly alone.

Existence appears as an “ex-sistere” from nothingness.

Truth is precisely the abstract and symbolic expression of a given moment in life; and just as this is never equal to itself but transforms into a motion that has no rest, so too does its correlative aspect change according to its rhythm.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Nicola Abbagnano (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.