Sublime

dans l'Antiquité, un philosophe n'était pas un personnage qui écrivait des ouvrages de philosophie, c'était quelqu'un qui menait une vie de philosophe.

That’s because real philosophers weren’t concerned with authorship, only what worked. More important, they believed that what was said mattered less than what was done.

He further declared philosophers to differ markedly from other men in that they alone would not change the order of their lives if all the laws of men were abolished. Among

“For I believe a good king is from the outset and by necessity a philosopher, and the philosopher is from the outset a kingly person.” —MUSONIUS RUFUS, LECTURES, 8.33.32–34

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school…. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not theoretically, but practically. —Henry David Thoreau

C’est parce que, pour les Anciens, la philosophie est avant tout une manière de vivre qu’ils ont appelé philosophes les cyniques, qui n’avaient aucun discours théorique, ou encore des personnages de toute sorte, femmes, simples citoyens, hommes politiques, qui n’écrivirent rien et n’enseignaient pas, mais vivaient en philosophes ;