Quotes About Philosophy

Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.

LISTEN SOCRATES, TO THE STORY; AS EXTRAORDINARY AS IT IS, IT IS ABSOLUTELY TRUE." Plato Timaeus 355 BC

Y ricuerde cada cual lo que cada cual sufrió, que lo que es, amigo, yo, hago ansí la cuenta mía: ya lo pasado pasó; mañana será otro día.

Por qué no tendemos al hombre sin ideales sobre nuestra mesa de autopsias, hasta saber qué es, cómo es, qué hace, qué piensa, para qué sirve?

Ésa es la ley del devenir humano: los acontecimientos, yermos de suyo para la mente humana, reciben vida y calor de los ideales, sin cuya influencia yacerían inertes y los siglos serían mudos.

Misión de la Universidad. Dije en ella que la universidad debe, ante todo, hacer del hombre medio un hombre culto. Por hombre culto entendía que tuviese unas ideas claras y básicas de la Física, Biología, Historia, Sociología y Filosofía.

By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.

The Mediterraneans, who do not think clearly, do see clearly.

there are more profound truths than one finds in history

Take care that your philosophy does not outpace your thought.

Those who try to understand life, which, by definition, cannot be understood, are those who do not understand poetry, which is, in short, the only thing that can be understood.

it was Buddhism that inspired the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer, and, through him, attracted Richard Wagner. This Orientalism reflected the struggle of the German Romantics, in the words of Léon Poliakov, to free themselves from Judeo-Christian fetters.

As this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost - he who accepts it has already begun to find himself.

Para el hombre de la generación novísima, el arte es una cosa sin trascendencia.

I have not lost the meaning of life, merely the illusion that life has a meaning.

I knew damn well that nobody's ever really happy, or happy on time, since happiness belongs to the past.

He belongs, as I do, to those who seek after meaning and he had discovered that meaning was no more than a gilded statue, a seven-day wonder, and a rather tasteless statue at that. … Meaning is a compulsive neurosis. It is only when the neurosis goes away, or we are cured of it, that we can live.

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

The delight we take in our senses is an implicit desire to know the ultimate reason for things, the highest cause. The desire for wisdom that philosophy etymologically is is a desire for the highest or divine causes. Philosophy culminates in theology. All other knowledge contains the seeds of contemplation of the divine.

Cómo va a entender que esas cosas, que se pueden hacer pensando en otras, no agotan como las que no pueden hacerse ni pensando constante, profunda, desgarradoramente en ellas mismas?

Cómo va a entender que esas cosas, que se pueden hacer pensando en otras, no agotan como las que no pueden hacerse ni pensando constantemente, profunda, desgarradoramente en ellas mismas?

Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species.

It is the duty of all who make philosophy the entertainment of their lives, to turn their thoughts to practical schemes for the good of society, and not pass away their time in fruitless searches, which tend rather to the ostentation of knowledge than the service of life.

'Tis pride, rank pride, and haughtiness of soul: I think the Romans call it Stoicism.