/lit/ - Literature

>>20340446
Unironically, this Frenchie was more in the right direction than the German idealists.

> Fortunate the systematic philosopher whom, like Epicurus and Lucretius or like Aristotle and Plato of old, nature has endowed with a lively imagination, great eloquence, and the art of expressing his ideas in striking and sublime pictures. The building he has erected may some day tumble down, but his statue will remain upright even beneath the ruins.
Denis Diderot

for me this is the highest level of comprehension of philosophy. he knew that philosophy is not science. he doesn't read philosophy to *agree* with this or that "argument" , he wants to enjoy the prose, the images, the atmosphere, the variety of subjects, and the whole aesthetical world embedded in the philosophical writing.

Where do I start with him? Is he difficult to read in French, I'm asking since my French sucks lel