Quotes About Philosophy

DüÅŸüncenin yakla??kl??? ile gerçeÄŸin kesinliÄŸi aras?nda düÅŸlenemez olan?n yaratt??? küçük bir boÅŸluk vard? ve onun bir türlü peÅŸini b?rakmayan da bu boÅŸluktu.

Asl?nda, gerçekten ciddi olan sorular bir çocuÄŸun bile dile getirebileceÄŸi sorulard?r.Yaln?zca en çocuksu sorular gerçekten ciddi olan sorulard?r.Cevaplar? olmayan sorulard?r bunlar.Cevab? olmayan soru a??lamayacak bir engeldir.BaÅŸka bir deyiÅŸle insani olas?l?klar?n s?n?rlar?n? belirleyen ,insan varoluÅŸunun s?n?rlar?n? saptayan cevab? olmayan sorulard?r.

We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come...And so....there is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison.

Perché le domande veramente serie sono solo quelle che possono essere formulate da un bambino. Solo le domande più ingenue sono veramente serie. Sono le domande per cui non esiste risposta. Una domanda per la quale non esiste risposta è una barriera oltre la quale non è possibile andare. In altri termini: sono proprio le domande per le quali non esiste risposta che segnano i limiti della possibilità umane e tracciano i confini dell'esistenza umana.

Non si può mai sapere che cosa si deve volere perché si vive una vita soltanto e non si può ne confrontarla con le proprie vite precedenti, né correggerla nelle vite future.

y life is always like a sketch. No, sketch is not quite the word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch for nothing, an outline with no picture.

Porque o homem pensa e a verdade escapa-lhe. Porque quanto mais os homens pensam, mais o pensamento de um se afasta do outro. E, finalmente, porque o homem nunca é aquilo que pensa ser.

Is it better to shout and thereby hasten the end, or to keep silent and gain thereby a slower death?

The dispute between those who believe that the world was created by God and those who think it came into being of its own accord deals with phenomena that go beyond our reason and experience. Much more real is the line separating those who doubt being as it is granted to man (no matter how or by whom) from those who accept it without reservation.

Aukš?iausias moralumas yra b?ti nenaudingam

O bom Deus foi injusto ao dar um rosto tão belo àquele imbecil e pernas curtas a Lermontov. Mas se o poeta não ter pernas compridas, possui um espírito sarcástico que o puxa para as alturas.

It was idealism that made him so angry. He expected too much out of life.

It takes a very great intelligence to breathe logical meaning into meaningless ideas.

If every second of our lives recurs an infinite number of times, we are nailed to eternity as Jesus was nailed to the cross. It is a terrifying prospect.

Si el hombre sólo puede vivir una vida es como si no viviera en absoluto.

Was aber kann das Leben wert sein, wenn die erste Probe für das Leben schon das Leben selber ist? Aus diesem Grunde gleicht das Leben immer einer Skizze. Auch Skizze ist nicht das richtige Wort, weil Skizze immer ein Entwurf zu etwas ist, die Vorbereitung eines Bildes, während die Skizze unseres Lebens eine Skizze von nichts ist, ein Entwurf ohne Bild.

Pero ¿qué valor puede tener la vida si el primer ensayo para vivir es ya la vida misma?

You know,' he went on, 'novels are the fruit of the human illusion that we can understand our fellow man. But what do we know about each other?' 'Nothing,' said Bibi. 'True,' said Joujou. The professor of philosophy acquiesced with a nod of the head. 'The only thing we can do,' said Banaka, 'is to give an account of our own selves. Anything else is an abuse of power. Anything else is a lie.

Havia outrora um filósofo cínico que se exibia nas ruas de Atenas vestido com uma túnica esburacada, para que todos o admirassem vendo-o ostentar o seu desprezo pelas convenções. Um dia, Sócrates encontra-o e diz-lhe: Vejo a tua vaidade pelo buraco da tua túnica. Também a sua porcaria senhor, é uma vaidade, e a sua vaidade uma porcaria.

Hace mucho tiempo, el hombre oía extrañado el sonido de un golpeteo dentro de su pecho y no tenía idea de su origen. El cuerpo era una jaula y dentro de ella había algo que miraba, escuchaba, temía, pensaba y se extrañaba; ese algo, ese resto que quedaba al sustraerle el cuerpo, ese algo era el alma. La cara no es más que una especie de tablero de instrumentos en el que desembocan todos los mecanismos del cuerpo.

He remained annoyed with himself until he realized that not knowing what he wanted was actually quite natural. We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come. Was it better to be with Tereza or to remain alone? There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison.

There would seem to be nothing more obvious, more tangible and palpable than the present moment. And yet it eludes us completely. All the sadness of life lies in that fact.

Erigena's argument holds the key to a theological justification (in other words, a theodicy) of shit.

El que empieza dudando de pequeñeces termina dudando de la vida como tal.