Quotes About Philosophy

He didn't believe animals could think, not in the way he defined the term, but he wasn't much impressed with human thinking, either. He referred to the human brain as a clown car parked between our ears. Open the doors and the clowns pile out.

Every exchange contained a lesson, like the pit in a cherry. To this day the Socratic method makes me want to bite someone.

It might be slow, Derrida said, but eventually the spectacle of our abuse of animals will be intolerable to our sense of who we are.

solipsism. According to solipsism, reality exists only inside

La vida no es siempre logica

What happens to people when they realize they're never going to die? Wow. The whole human existence is predicated on inevitable death.

All you could do was wait for death to make you inconsequential. Frank

Anyone who does not want communism-and none of us do-should take socialism seriously.

Concerning the Investigation of Super-History' (Urgeschichte) (pp. 20–8)

Of Myself and of Death' (pp. 287–300).

I regard anticommunism as a matter of principle an evil even greater than communism itself.

L'homme ne prend conscience de son être que dans les situations limites. [Autobiographie philosophique (1963)]

To philosophize is to learn to die – philosophizing is a soaring up to the Godhead – the knowledge of Being as Being. from "Philosophy and Science", World Review Magazine (March 1950)

palabras de Fraenkel, su médico] (...) el paciente, para hacerse dueño de la enfermedad, tiene que integrarla en su vida. (...) Entre el destino y la voluntad Schicksal und Wille

Filosofia se tr?deaz? pe sine atunci când degenereaz? în dogmatism, adic? într-o ÅŸtiin?? fixat? în formule, definitiv?, complet?. A face filozofie înseamn? a fi pe drum; în filozofie întreb?rile sunt mult mai importante decât r?spunsurile, ÅŸi fiecare r?spuns devine o nou? întrebare

For one wishing to philosophize, it is of particular, indeed of crucial importance to ascertain the difference between the object cognition that is achieved in the sciences and the transcending thought that characterizes philosophy......which transcend[s] the limits of the knowable and of the world as a whole, so that through these limits we become aware of the phenomenality of empirical existence and hence of the Comprehensive nature of being, thus entering into the area of faith.

Omul nu-ÅŸi descoper? adev?ratul sine decât în situaÅ£ii-limit?.

Philosophical activity is fully real only at the summits of personal philosophizing, while objectivized philosophical thought is a preparation for, and a recollection of, it.

felsefe yapmak ölmeyi öÄŸrenmektir.

felsefe; yolda olmak demektir.

For one wishing to philosophize, it is particular, indeed of crucial importance to ascertain the difference between the object cognition that is achieved in the sciences and the transcending thought that characterizes philosophy......which transcend[s] the limits of the knowable and of the world as a whole, so that through these limits we become aware of the phenomenality of empirical existence and hence of the Comprehensive nature of being, thus entering into the area of faith.

For one wishing to philosophize, it is particular, indeed of crucial importance to ascertain the difference between the object cognition that which is achieved in the sciences and the transcending thought that characterizes philosophy......which transcend[s] the limits of the knowable and of the world as a whole, so that through these limits we become aware of the phenomenality of empirical existence and hence of the Comprehensive nature of being, thus entering into the area of faith.

Beszélni valamirÅ'l annyi, mint értelmezni azt.

Az ember alapjában véve több annál, mint amit megtudhatunk róla.