Quotes About Philosophy

Según mi escuela de pensamiento, los nombres son simplemente algo conveniente. No tienen ningún misterio

La culpa y la salvación son abstracciones. Yo no actúo de acuerdo con meras abstracciones.

Ponekad se pitam, re?e, kako bi bilo da Božja stvorenja nemaju sna. Kad bismo ?itav život provodili budni, da li bi nas to u?inilo boljim ljudima ili gorim?

When all else fail, philosophize.

Hoy está usted de mal humor! No hace falta ningún designio elevado que justifique la vida. La vida es buena en sí misma;

The shocks of existence: he must learn to take them more lightly.

Nos vemos transportados literalmente por una nube de buena voluntad. Pero todo es un poco abstracto. ¿Puede la buena voluntad satisfacer por sí sola todas nuestras necesidades? ¿No es parte de nuestra naturaleza anhelar algo más tangible?

Pero tal vez no haya un porqué. Tal vez sea como preguntar por qué un pollo es un pollo, o por qué existe un universo y no un agujero enorme en el cielo. Las cosas son como son.

Se puede quedar tranquilo, señor, no vamos a hacer restas. La sustracción, la adición, la aritmética en general tienen poca importancia para alguien que afronta una crisis tan profunda en su vida.

La aritmética es para alguien que se propone salir al mundo, comprar y vender. No. Vamos a estudiar los números enteros, el uno, el dos, el tres, etcétera. Eso acordamos con David. La teoría de los números; lo que uno puede hacer con los números y qué sucede cuando los números se acaban.

La razón no es ni la esencia del universo ni mucho menos la esencia de Dios. Muy al contrario, a mí la razón se me antoja sospechosamente la esencia del pensamiento humano; peor aún, es como la esencia de una sola tendencia del pensamiento humano.

Why? Why not?

If i were pressed to give my brand of political thought a label, I would call it pessimistic anarchistic quietism

Others in the ancient world who denounced usury include Plato, Moses, Muhammad, Aristotle and Buddha. When a line-up like that is in agreement, it is perhaps worth thinking twice about our acceptance of it.

many atheists embrace Jesus as having been a great teacher, and yet he's the one who had the most to say about hell.

We start by trusting our reason. But, later, we encounter skeptical arguments against that trust and so we stop trusting reason. But once we do this, we no longer have any reason to accept the skeptical arguments themselves and continue our mistrust of reason. At this point, I begin to trust reason again, but then, the skeptical arguments reassert themselves and so forth. We have entered a vicious dialectical loop that, eventually, will reach a sort of intellectual paralysis.

Without time," the angel said, "you have only the bottomless, shapeless mire of eternity." "FYI, philosophy bores me." "Not philosophy. Reality. Time is what gives life significance.

Did television execs have souls? Now, that was an existential question and a half.

The Maker was a genius, he thought. Infinity resulted in insolence. But transience was the way one treasured what one had been given.

El tiempo es un lujo, lo creas o no —dijo. —A mí me parece una maldición.

You know, like that old Catch 42 expression that stands for the meaning of life is that in the end you always get screwed.

The Japanese think it strange we paint our old wooden houses when it takes so long to find the wabi in them. They prefer the bonsai tree after the valiant blossoming is over, the leaves fallen. When bareness reveals a merit born in the vegetable struggling.

Sometimes I doubt that anyone with a philosophical turn of mind is fit to judge anyone. He never comprehends the concept of guilt.

The world was a bad joke dreamed up by the Almighty on an off-day. I've always felt myself that he probably had a hangover that morning.