Quotes About Philosophy

Aristotle observes that eating either too much or too little is troubling to the constitution.

Life can be meaningful enough to justify its suffering

Aceptar la vida es más duro que aceptar la muerte.

La vida es el ruido entre dos silencios.

Al margen de su imposibilidad, el concepto de mirar activamente la degradación de la materia, que incluye la de nuestro propio cuerpo, es una saludable terapia estoica que ayuda a aceptar el paso despiadado del tiempo.

Deus é gordo" - Vadinho ao voltar

Today's philosophy questions are tomorrow's precision science experiments.

Theorists are a smart bunch (in theory),

Todo tiene sentido, pero yo me apagaré y nada importará. Efectivamente. No somos ni una anécdota. ¿Para qué preocuparse tanto? Mamíferos efímeros en un pedazo de piedra perdida en la inmensidad.

Me siento incómodo, pero me aguanto, porque considero que cada quien tiene derecho a expresarse como pueda. Es mi filosofía.

I have known that thing the Greeks knew not uncertainty.

It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.

I have known what the Greeks did not: uncertainty.

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.

Life itself is a quotation.

For death is personal only for the person itself, that is to the extent it is accepted, embraced, it can be personal for him, and for only.

La mort n'est pas un évènement de la vie. La mort ne peut être vécue », avait écrit ce con de Wittgenstein.

Que nadie se equivoque, cuando se pierde un partido o un campeonato, siempre habrá otras oportunidades; cuando se pierde el estilo, se pierde todo.

Ptolomeo tenía razón después de todo: el universo gira en torno del centro de la Tierra. ¡Pero lo mismo puede decirse de cualquier otro punto del universo!

that we be founded on infinite smallness

The future without days. Without days of it? in it? I try to—just for a second—feel that shape.

Life is an unpleasant business. I have resolved to spend it reflecting on it.

But that which remains for ever incomprehensible is the initial horror, the horror imposed on each of us, of having to live, and that is a mystery no philosophy can explain.