Quotes About Philosophy

Inevitably, he said, What is the meaning of this? It is the precise question and precise wording thereof that has been put to the atmosphere on such occasions by an incredible variety of men since humanity was invented. It is not recorded that it has ever been asked for any purpose other than dignified effect.

Finished products are for decadent minds.

el hombre ha tratado siempre de rehuir el concepto de infinitud, ya sea del espacio o del tiempo, como algo imposible de concebir y entender, y por ende, como un concepto con el que no es fácil trabajar ni razonar.

murió... Porque le faltaba sabiduría y le sobraba corazón.

All sources of energy in our Universe run down. We can't help that. Everything is downhill in just one direction, and we can force a temporary uphill, backward, only by taking advantage of some greater downhill in the vicinity. If we want useful energy forever, we need a road that is downhill both ways. That is a paradox in our Universe; it stands to reason that whatever is downhill one way is uphill going back.

La muerte, excelencia, es un fenómeno tan absoluto e irrevocable, que ciertamente debe haber alguna otra alternativa.

Un encadenamiento de razonamientosválidos sólo puede llevar a la determinación de la verdad.

Inevitably, he said, What is the meaning of this? It is the precise question and precise wording thereof that has been put to the atmosphere on such occasions by an incredible variety of men since humanity was invented. In it not recorded that it has ever been asked for any purpose other than dignified effect.

Los robots eran máquinas y no metáforas.

Nunca, en toda mi vida, ni siquiera por un momento, me he sentido tentado por ninguna religión de ningún tipo. El hecho es que no siento ningún vacío espiritual. Tengo mi filosofía de la vida, que no incluye ningún aspecto sobrenatural y que encuentro totalmente satisfactoria. En resumen, soy un racionalista y sólo creo lo que me dice la razón.

Es sorprendente que una colección de declaraciones que son individualmente ciertas puedan usarse, combinadas, para conseguir un resultado que no se hubiera logrado con la verdad.

The Voice said, Even if I knew everything, I could not know that I know everything. Murray said, That sounds like a bit of Eastern philosophy - something that sounds profound precisely because it has no meaning.

Enlightened self-interest' they call it.

más vale tener planteados problemas sin solucionar que no plantearse problemas.

Why, he wondered, did so many people spend their lives not trying to find answers to questions - not even thinking of questions to begin with? Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?

No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world.

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

literature can very well describe the absurd, but it should never become absurd itself

Atheism is a sort of crippled mysticism, [...] Blind nature has created all that we see, as well as all that we do not see - that's a mystical notion.

How far is living from dying?

If time is just a form of perception, or a category of reason, the past is as present as today: Cain continues to murder Abel.

Comparada con aquella luminosidad, hasta la muerte parecía una simple pesadilla. Ni el cielo ni el río ni las dunas estaban muertos. Todo vivía, la tierra, el sol y cada piedra. El verdadero enigma no era la muerte, sino el sufrimiento.

For in much wisdom is much grief,' Ecclesiastes said.

Was die Moralisten das Böse nannten, war in Wirklichkeit die Lebensregel.