Quotes About Philosophy

Genius doesn't specialize; genius is reason in itself.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

Our Age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchers of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should we not have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? … The sun shines today also … There are new lands, new men, new thoughts. Let us demand our own works and laws and worship.

She tried to think about anachronism—what it means in literature, what it indicates about our confusion regarding the nature of space, our own persistent perishing—but found she was unable to hold on to the thought.

A veces creo que los dioses se burlan de nosotros.

the philosophers of history privileged particular tropes, or figures of speech: Marx emphasized Metonymy and Synecdoche to organize the historical field, whereas Nietzsche relied on Metaphor and Croce on Irony.

There's a Buddhist saying that when your house is done your life is over. I hope Tom works on Camp Weasel forever.

When I opened a book now, I was seized with desperation. I felt as if I was madly in love. It was as if I were in a confession booth and the characters in the book were on the other side telling me their most intimate secrets. When I read, I was a philosopher and it was up to me to figure out the meaning of things. Reading made me feel as if I were the center of the universe.

If you can imagine something, then it is possible within the physical laws of this universe. So says some Greek philosopher.

When I read, I was a philosopher and it was up to me to figure out the meaning of things. Reading made me feel as if I were the center of the universe.

Should we not be concerned as to whether this fear of error is not just the error itself?

To hold fast the positive in the negative, in the content of the presupposition, in the result, this is the most important feature in rational cognition.

As the essence of Matter is Gravity, so, on the other hand, we may affirm that the substance, the essence of Spirit is Freedom.

Eternity will not be nor has it been, it is. Spirit is the we that is I or the I that is we.

Wenn die Philosophie ihr Grau in Grau malt, dann ist eine Gestalt des Lebens alt geworden, und mit Grau in Grau läßt sie sich nicht verjüngen, sondern nur erkennen; die Eule der Minerva beginnt erst mit der einbrechenden Dämmerung ihren Flug.

In nature, time is the now. The past and the future of time, taken as existent in nature, are space.

Just as light is manifestion of itself and its other, that which is dark, and can only know itself by revealing that other, so too with the ego, which is only rrevealed to itself in so far as its other is revealed to it in the shape of something independent of it.

When one begins to philosophize one must be first a Spinozist. The soul must bathe itself in the aether of this single substance, in which everything one has held dear is submerged.

To say that in every falsehood there is a grain of truth is to treat the two like oil and water, which cannot be mixed and are only externally combined.

The true is thus the bacchanalian whirl in which no member is not drunken; and because each, as soon as it detaches itself, dissolves immediately — the whirl is just as much transparent and simple repose.

Every consciousness pursues the death of the other.

Die Wahrheit des Seins ist Wesen

When philosophy paints its gray on gray, then has a form of life grown old, and with gray on gray it cannot be rejuvenated, but only known; the Owl of Minerva first takes flight with twilight closing in.

Only within metaphysics does logic exist.