"Désanges’s conceptual credo of the ‘amateur’,
the ‘non-professional’ who is motivated by love." (Frank, 2012)
"One way to see edifying philosophy as the love of wisdom is to see it as the attempt to prevent conversation from degenerating into inquiry, into a research programme" T. Holert, ‘Invitation to the Interval’, in Rike Frank (ed.), Sketches of Universal History Compiled
From Many Authors By Sarah Pierce, London: Book Works, 2013, p.164.