Charlotte Casiraghi

"Both philosophy and literature have helped me to put things into perspective. They gave me the strength to be myself. I found colleagues, I felt understood through hardships in life. When I was able t…"

"It is key that we address the question of hospitality today: it means reassessing the notions of borders ; the acceptance of strangers and refugees; and the question of knowledge, to name just a few. …"

"Love is the most difficult test we each will face. It's the highest testimony of ourselves; everything else in our lives is all preparation for this supreme challenge."

"I was fortunate, thanks to my mother, to have early access to culture and literature, which allowed me to forge a taste for critical thinking."

"Loneliness, I felt it early enough, adolescent, and this is what prompted me to introspection, especially since I had a temperament that inclined me to analysis. Later, the company of philosophers gav…"

"I do not get up in the morning thinking of Nietzsche, looking at the sky, and telling myself that I am in contact with the eternal return. I do not understand philosophy in this way. Philosophy animat…"

"Anxiety and existential anguish are part of everyone's life. My personal experience has been of sad events, such as my father's early death, but these are things that happen to everyone, no matter whe…"

"When I was younger, I remember being very angry with someone who hurt me, but I told myself that, even if I were in jail or alone, as long as I had a pen and a piece of paper, as long as I could expre…"