Quotes About Philosophy

soy un fue y un será y un es cansado...

That line from the Iliad, "Everything is more beautiful because we are doomed.

Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters

El sueño de la razón produce monstruos (The sleep of reason produces monsters)

El sueno de la razon produce monstuos

El sueño de la razón produce monstruos

Cuando los estetas se ponen metafísicos, suelen quedarse en alegóricos, y eso jode.

Los dioses del hombre jamás han tenido otra cara que la del hombre mismo [...] si mi dios no existe ¿quién soy yo?

Literature is the fragment of fragments', wrote Goethe in Wilhelm Meister's Years of Wandering, the great sad novel of his old age:

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.

As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking.

Philosopher A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth.

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.

Cum acolo unde face ce face, el nu este: Cum atunci când face nu este: De-aici baza înstr?in?rii noastre de sine. - Marx, în 1844

In leaving the café I asked Joyce how long he had been working on Ulysses . "About five years," he said. "But in a sense all my life." "Some of your contemporaries," I said, "think two books a year an average output." "Yes," said Joyce. "But how do they do it? They talk them into a typewriter. I feel quite capable of doing that if I wanted to do it. But what's the use? It isn't worth doing.

Intellectuals are not defined according to the jobs they do, but [by] the manner in which they act, the way they see themselves, and the values that they uphold.

Must we be defined by our vulnerability? Must we be fearful? The moment we ask these questions, we are well on the way to intuiting that there is always an alternative…Whether we adopt the philosophy of precaution or embrace a more courageous risk-taking approach depends on how [we perceive] what it means to be a human.

Truth is subject to too much analysis.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

All fine architectural values are human vales, else not valuable.