Quotes About Philosophy

Tus nociones sobre la verdad y la bondad son puramente históricas, se fundan en una ética heredada. Pero la historia y a ética me parecen a mí altamente dudosas.

Lo absurdo no son las cosas, lo absurdo es que las cosas estén ahí y las sintamos como absurdas.

soy sumamente sensible a la discontinuidad vertiginosa de la existencia.

me custava muito menos pensar do que ser.

Oh, life, life!" Bastidas complained, sipping his drink. "What is life? A little flame at the tip of a candle, exposed to a strong wind.

y, como a menudo pensaba, su verdadera sabiduría había consistido en haber conducido su existencia por los senderos de la modestia, la moderación y la mediocridad.

It is a sign of regression when pleasure begins to be considered as the highest principle

Sê o que os progressistas chamam de extremista.

In the idea we recognize our true homeland.

This is not a matter of compromises or adaptations. The power of a new Middle Ages is needed. A change, interior as well as exterior, of barbaric purity is required. Philosophy, "culture", everyday politics: no more of all that. It is not a matter of shifting to the other side of this bed of agony. It is a matter of finally waking up, and standing on one's feet.

Jokingly, I once said that beside 'Evolians' [...] we now also have 'Evolomaniacs'. Similar phenomena are inevitable. Interview 6 - 1972

Socialism, like democracy, is an attitude of mind

What is the moral meaning of our own gods?

Entitled 'My Country and Its Appeal', she commented on China's cultural icon Confucius: 'His grossest mistake was the failure to regard womankind with due respect. We learn from observation that no nation can rise to distinction unless her women are educated and considered as man's equal morally, socially, and intellectually … China's progress must come largely through her educated women.

If you ask me I don't think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That's enough.

If you ask me I don't think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. That's enough.

We're clocks, Abelard. Nothing more.

Si me preguntan, diría que no creo que las maldiciones existan. Pienso que solo existe la vida. Y eso basta.

I would not say I was a nonbeliever; rather, that I gave little if any thought to celestial concerns. It did not seem to me that God, whoever he was, would be the sort of god to take an interest in the minutiae of human affairs, or that this fact released us from the duty to go about our lives in a spirit of decency to others.

I have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.' That's T.S. Eliot, in case you were wondering. An oldie but a goodie. When it came to existential exhaustion, the man was one smart cookie.

Nebunia înseamn? uneori în?elepciune.

Hey, if it's a good philosophy, it works. Death is imminent. Live every day like it's your last.

There is a close relationship between faith and reason, for one cannot function without the other. Reason builds its arguments on first principles which cannot be proven, but are accepted by faith. For the truly wise, faith is the first principle, the starting point, on which reason is to build.

Miserable Aristotle, who gave them dialectics! He gave them the art of building in order to tear down, an art of slippery speech and crude arguments . . . which rejects everything and deals with nothing.15