Roberto Esposito famous quotes

The "outside" constitutes the horizon of meaning and the vital energy of our practice and thought.
-- Roberto Esposito

#Practice #Energy #Horizon

If we think about it, all great discoveries and paradigm shifts are always stimulated by an external event.
-- Roberto Esposito

#Thinking #Discovery #Events

When a political organization loses contact with its origin, it declines and risks implosion.
-- Roberto Esposito

#Organization #Political #Risk

The fact is that philosophy has been a decisive source of inspiration in all the great crises that Europe has faced. It has been so in the time that preceded the fall of the Roman Empire, when Augustine of Hippo delineated the features of a new spiritual civilization; in the age of religious wars, when Descartes and Hobbes established the principles of modern science and politics; and at the turn of the French Revolution, interpreted by Kant and Hegel as an event destined to change the history of the world.
-- Roberto Esposito

#Spiritual #Religious #Philosophy

If you think about it, in the most dramatic moments of its history Europe has always turned to philosophy and, in turn, philosophy has interrogated itself about the destiny of Europe as something that touches its very essence.
-- Roberto Esposito

#Philosophy #Destiny #Thinking

Not possessing definite geographical boundaries, at least in the East - its distinction from Asia is problematic, considering that two large countries, Russia and Turkey, stretch between the two continents - , Europe, from the beginning, has defined itself from the perspective of the constitutive specificity of its philosophical principles: the freedom of the Greek cities as opposed to the Asian despotic regimes. Although these principles were often contradicted and reversed into their opposite, the idea of Europe is inseparable from them.
-- Roberto Esposito

#Country #Philosophical #Europe

Of course philosophy is not able to impose its own choices on politics, let alone on the economy. Nonetheless, it can help to identify the role of Europe in the global world and the principles that should inform its conduct.
-- Roberto Esposito

#Philosophy #Europe #Choices

Once you have your practice and you have your mechanics, you must be able to go out there and trust your mechanics.

Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.

Let's face it, I only practice yoga because the classes are always packed with beautiful women.

It is ... impossible to keep one's excellence in a little glass casket, like a jewel, to take it out whenever wanted. On the contrary, it can only be conserved by continuous and good practice.

I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.

I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.

The grave, where sets the orb of being, sets To rise, ascend, and culminate above Eternity's horizon evermore.

They say Australians get that ten-yard stare. It comes from the land and the horizon. You can see all around you for as far as you can see. So you just stare. I do it all the time.

It’s amazing how things could change so quickly, in the blink of an eye. Maybe more miracles awaited on the horizon.

Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.