Jean-Marie Guyau quotes

Jean-Marie Guyau was a French philosopher and poet, recognized for his contributions to ethics and aesthetics. His works explored themes such as morality without obligation and artistic inspiration, influencing later philosophers. He blended philosophy with poetry, leaving a lasting mark on modern thought. Here are 4 of his quotes:

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

Jean-Marie Guyau

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

Jean-Marie Guyau

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.

Jean-Marie Guyau