Quotes About Philosophy

no se trata en absoluto de la voluntad de creer en cosas que sabes perfectamente que son falsas. Eso sería ignorancia o ceguera voluntaria. Se trata, por el contrario, de darse cuenta de que las irracionalidades trágicas de la vida tienen que compensarse con un compromiso igualmente irracional con la bondad esencial del Ser.

That is a very difficult question. It is, on the one hand, the question of value: What is of the highest importance? It is, on the other hand, the question of sovereignty: What principle should rule?

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Elige tu destino y expresa tu Ser. Como el gran filósofo alemán del siglo XIX Friedrich Nietzsche observó tan brillantemente: «Quien tiene un porqué para vivir encontrará casi siempre el cómo».67

rationality is subject to the single worst temptation--to raise what it knows now to the status of an absolute.

the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.

Ideologies are simple ideas, disguised as science or philosophy, that purport to explain the complexity of the world and offer remedies that will perfect it. Ideologues are people who pretend they know how to "make the world a better place" before they've taken care of their own chaos within. (The warrior identity that their ideology gives them covers over that chaos.)

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If existence is good, then the clearest and cleanest and most correct relationship with it is also good. If existence is not good, by contrast, you're lost. Nothing will save you

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He who has many material things, may be described as rich, but he who knows he has enough, and is at one with the Tao,

It's not God I don't accept. Understand this," says Ivan. "I do not accept the world that He created, this world of God's, and cannot agree with it.

There's nothing that requires you to think more deeply than to write a book. (Interview with Chris Williamson)

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It has been said that every individual is the conscious or unconscious follower of some influential philosopher.

Only unusually strong and logically consistent people act in this manner. Having realized all the stupidity of the joke that is being played on us and seeing that the blessings of the dead are greater than those of the living and that it is better not to exist, they act and put an end to this stupid joke; and they use any means of doing it: a rope around the neck, water, a knife in the heart, a train.

The philosopher's stone remains undiscovered in the gutter; and the information hidden in the round chaos, beckoning, remains unexplored. Such omission is the voluntary refusal of expanded consciousness. After all, the pathway to the Holy Grail has its beginnings in the darkest part of the forest, and what you need remains hidden where you least want to look.

He observed that the virtues always aim for balance and avoid the extremes of the vices.

Instead of despairing about these differences in moral codes, Aristotle argued that though specific rules, laws and customs differed from place to place, what does not differ is that in all places human beings, by their nature, have a proclivity to make rules, laws and customs. To

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Nicomachean Ethics.

Reason is something alive. It lives in all of us. It's older than any of us. It's best understood as a personality, not a faculty.

El orden puede acabar resultando excesivo, y eso no es bueno, pero el caos puede anegarlo todo y ahogarnos, lo que tampoco es bueno.

Nietzsche, for his part, posited that individual human beings would have to invent their own values in the aftermath of God's death. But this is the element of his thinking that appears weakest, psychologically: