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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, III conte di Shaftesbury , è stato un politico, filosofo e scrittore inglese.

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✵ 26. Febbraio 1671 – 4. Febbraio 1713
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Anthony Ashley Cooper, III conte di Shaftesbury frasi celebri

“Lo spirito che si affina, posando appena lo sguardo sugli altri oggetti, trascurando i corpi e le forme comuni – dove rimane appena un'ombra di bellezza – ambiziosamente agogna di tornare alla propria fonte e scorge nell'intelligenza prima il paradigma della forma e dell'ordine.”

Anthony Ashley Cooper, III conte di Shaftesbury

Citazioni di Shaftesbury
Origine: Citato in Eugenio Spedicato, La strana creatura del caos: idee e figure del male nel pensiero della modernità, Donzelli Editore, Roma, 1997. ISBN 88-7989-348-3

“L'umorismo è l'antidoto contro ogni forma di fanatismo.”

Anthony Ashley Cooper, III conte di Shaftesbury

Citazioni di Shaftesbury
Origine: Citato in Messaggero di Sant'Antonio, maggio 2010, p. 39.

“Non vi è cosa più divina della bellezza, la quale, non appartenendo al corpo e non avendo principio o esistenza se non nello spirito e nella ragione, può essere svelata e appresa da questa parte più divina di noi, quando essa contempla se stessa, unico oggetto degno di lei.”

Anthony Ashley Cooper, III conte di Shaftesbury

citato in Eugenio Spedicato, La strana creatura del caos: idee e figure del male nel pensiero della modernità, Donzelli Editore, Roma 1997. ISBN 88-7989-348-3
Citazioni di Shaftesbury

“Dobbiamo prestare fede all'anatomia del nostro corpo e, in ordinata proporzione, alle forme, alle figure, alle costituzioni delle altre specie animali. Senza indugiare sulle profonde ipotesi moderne circa l'insensibilità degli animali, dobbiamo fermamente e risolutamente credere che anche le altre creature hanno sensi e sentimenti, inclinazioni e passioni, proprio come noi.”

Anthony Ashley Cooper, III conte di Shaftesbury

Citazioni di Shaftesbury
Origine: Da Miscellaneous Reflections; citato in Gino Ditadi, I filosofi e gli animali, vol. 2, Isonomia editrice, Este, 1994, p. 651. ISBN 88-85944-12-4

Anthony Ashley Cooper, III conte di Shaftesbury: Frasi in inglese

“The most natural Beauty in the World is Honesty, and Moral Truth. For all Beauty is Truth. True Features make the Beauty of a Face; and true Proportions the Beauty of Architecture; as true Measures that of Harmony and Musick.”

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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury

Vol. 1, p. 77; "Sensus Communis".
Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711)

“True courage…has so little to do with Anger, that there lies always the strongest Suspicion against it, where this Passion is highest. The true Courage is the cool and calm. The bravest of Men have the least of a brutal bullying Insolence; and in the very time of Danger are found the most serene, pleasant, and free. Rage, we know, can make a Coward forget himself and fight. But what is done in Fury, or Anger, can never be plac’d to the account of Courage.”

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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury

Vol. 1, p. 66; "Sensus Communis".
Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711)

“Tis the hardest thing in the world to be a good Thinker, without being a strong Self-Examiner.”

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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury

Vol. 1, p. 92; "Soliloquy: or Advice to an Author".
Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711)

“Twas the saying of [Georgias Leontinus apud Arist. Rhetor. lib. 3. cap. 18… which the Translator renders, Seria Risu, Risum Seriis discutere] an ancient sage that humour was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humour. For a subject which would not bear raillery was suspicious; and a jest which would not bear a serious examination was certainly false wit.”

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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury

Sensus Communis: An Essay on the Freedom of Wit and Humour (1709), Part 1, Sec. 5

“A Right Mind, and Generous Affection, [has] more Beauty and Charm, than all other Symmetrys in the World besides.”

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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury

Vol. 2, p. 209; "Miscellany III".
Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711)

“We may have an excellent Ear in Musick, without being able to perform in any kind. We may judg well of Poetry, without being Poets, or possessing the least of a Poetick Vein: But we can have no tolerable Notion of Goodness, without being tolerably good.”

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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury

Vol. 1, p. 26; "A Letter Concerning Enthusiasm".
Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711)

“Gravity is of the very Essence of Imposture. It does not only make us mistake other Things, but is apt perpetually almost to mistake it-self.”

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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury

Vol. 1, p. 11; "A Letter Concerning Enthusiasm".
Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711)

“Never did any Soul do good, but it came readier to do the same again, with more Enjoyment. Never was Love, or Gratitude, or Bounty practis'd but with increasing Joy, which made the Practiser still more in love with the fair Act.”

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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury

Vol. 2, p. 30; "The Moralists, a Philosophical Rhapsody".
Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711)

“Tis not Wit merely, but a Temper which must form the Well-Bred Man. In the same manner, 'tis not a Head merely, but a Heart and Resolution which must compleat the real Philosopher.”

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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury

Vol. 2, p. 206; "Miscellany III".
Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711)

“How comes it to pass then, that we appear such Cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the Test of Ridicule?”

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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury

Vol. 1, p. 11; "A Letter Concerning Enthusiasm".
Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711)

“Truth is the most powerful thing in the world, since even fiction itself must be governed by it, and can only please by its resemblance.”

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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury

Vol. 1, p. 8; "A Letter Concerning Enthusiasm".
Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711)

“Truly … as accidental as my Life may be, or as that random Humour is, which governs it; I know nothing, after all, so real or substantial as My-Self. Therefore if there be that Thing you call a Substance, I take for granted I am one. But for anything further relating to this Question, you know my Sceptick Principles: I determine neither way.”

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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury

Vol. 2, p. 83; Part 3, Sect. 1 "Philocles to Palemon".
Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711)

“Truth, 'tis suppos'd, may bear all Lights: and one of those principal Lights or natural Mediums, by which Things are to be view'd, in order to a thorow Recognition, is Ridicule it-self, or that Manner of Proof by which we discern whatever is liable to just Raillery in any Subject.”

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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury

Vol. 1, p. 38; "Sensus Communis".
Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711)

“All Politeness is owing to Liberty. We polish one another, and rub off our Corners and rough Sides by a sort of amicable Collision. To restrain this, is inevitably to bring a Rust upon Mens Understandings.”

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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury

Vol. 1, pp. 39-40; "Sensus Communis".
Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711)

“The Taste of Beauty, and the Relish of what is decent, just, and amiable, perfects the Character of the Gentleman, and the Philosopher. And the Study of such a Taste or Relish will, as we suppose, be ever the great Employment and Concern of him, who covets as well to be wise and good, as agreeable and polite.”

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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury

Vol. 2, p. 207; "Miscellany III".
Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711)

“Through certain humors or passions, and from temper merely, a man may be completely miserable, let his outward circumstances be ever so fortunate.”

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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury

As quoted in Day's Collacon : An Encyclopaedia of Prose Quotations: (1884), p. 930; Actual quote: "That thro certain Humours or Passions, and from Temper merely, a Man may be completely miserable ; let his outward Circumstances be ever so fortunate." An inquiry concerning virtue, or merit, p. 52.

“Not to be confused with his grandfather, Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury.”

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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury

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