Quotes About Philosophy

Sapk?nl???n yan?lg?s? buradad?r. Bir ak?m?n sunduÄŸu inanc?n önemi yoktur; önemli olan sunduÄŸu umuttur.

Admittenda tibi joca sunt post seria quaedam, sed tamen et dignis ipsa gerenda modis». Y

which reminds me of a saying attributed to Arthur Rubenstein: 'Do you believe in God? No, I believe in something much greater.' The best way we can manage to imagine in trying to conceive of God is the classic night in which all cows are black.

Mientras te contraigas en el vacío puedes pensar aún que estás en contacto con el Uno, pero tan pronto como manosees la arcilla, aunque sea electrónica, te conviertes en un demiurgo, y quien se empeña en hacer un mundo ya está comprometido con el error y con el mal.

Spirito.D'altro canto, quando Lukács sostiene che l'irrazionalismo filosofico degli ultimi due secoli è un'invenzione della borghesia che cerca di reagire alla crisi cui si trova di fronte legittimando filosoficamente la propria volontà di potenza e la propria pratica imperialistica, sta semplicemente traducendo la sindrome gnostica in linguaggio marxista. C'è

Counterfactual conditionals are always true, because the premise is false.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they believe in nothing. They believe in everything.

What terrifies you most in purity, I asked? Haste, William answered. -- The Name of the Rose, Fifth Day, Nones

It [Foucault's Pendulum] can be very comforting for people of my generation, who ate disappointment for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Whoever reflects on four things, it were better he had never been born: that which is above, that which is below, that which is before, and that which is after. —Talmud, Hagigah 2.1

Gott ist ein lauter Nichts, ihn rührt kein Nun noch Hier. . . .

You should read some Feuerbach

Quizá la tarea del que ama a los hombres consista en lograr que éstos se rían de la verdad, lograr que la verdad ría, porque la única verdad consiste en aprender a liberarnos de la insana pasión por la verdad.

There comes a time when one has to make up one's mind and choose which side one is on. The catoptric universe is a reality which can give the impression of virtuality, whereas the semiotic universe is a virtuality which can give the impression of reality.

At times this can be so. Often books speak of other books. Often a harmless book is like a seed that will blossom into a dangerous book, or it is the other way around: it is the sweet fruit of a bitter stem. In reading Albert, couldn't I learn what Thomas might have said? Or in reading Thomas, know what Averroës said?

It is not intuitive why all this is intuitive.

Pero cuando Diotallevi y yo pensamos en construir un ars oblivionalis no pudimos descubrir las reglas del olvido. Es inútil: podemos ir en busca del tiempo perdido siguiendo exiguas huellas en el bosque, como Pulgarcito, pero somos incapaces de extraviar deliberadamente el tiempo reencontrado.

He is the one who taught how to distinguish contradictions in order to mediate them harmoniously. Once the trick was clear, they thought that Thomas's lesson was this: Where yes and no are opposed, create a "nes.

Si Dieu existait, il serait une bibliothèque.

Sería atroz —comentó Guillermo— matar a un hombre para decir Credo in unum Deum…

What is frequently appreciated in many so-called symbols is exactly their vagueness, their openness, their fruitful ineffectiveness to express a 'final' meaning, so that with symbols and by symbols one indicates what is always beyond one's reach.

Gott ist ein lautes Nichts, ihn rührt kein Nun noch Hier. Tanr? kocaman bir hiçtir, ne ÅŸimdi ilgilendirir onu ne de buras?.

4 El que trata de penetrar en la Rosaleda de los Filósofos sin la clave es como el hombre que pretenda caminar sin los pies. Michael Maier, Atalanta Fugiens, Oppenheim

Lanny smiled to himself. His chief called himself a "liberal," and Lanny had been trying to make up his mind just what that meant. He decided that a liberal was a high-minded gentleman who believed the world was made in his own image.