Quotes About Philosophy

Myth is already enlightenment, and enlightenment reverts to mythology.

The late Franz Borkenau once said, after he had broken with the Communist Party, that he could no longer put up with the practice of discussing municipal regulations in the categories of Hegelian logic, and Hegelian logic in the spirit of meetings of the town council.

Relativism is vulgar materialism, thought disturbs the business.

It is the innermost nature of true interpretation to contribute to the death of its object.

The utopia of knowledge would be to open up the non-conceptual with concepts, without making it their equal.

It is self-evident that nothing concerning art is self-evident anymore, not its inner life, not its relation to the world, not even its right to exist.

Une philosophie transformée devrait casser cette prétention, ne plus faire croire à elle-même et aux autres qu'elle dispose de l'infini. Mais au lieu de cela c'est elle qui, subtilement comprise deviendrait infinie dans la mesure où elle dédaignerait de se fixer dans un corpus de théorèmes dénombrables.

even there, where the rejection of the system is taken for granted and for that reason a lax and cunning conformism of its own has developed.

Con respecto a lo negativo, el hecho de que no pueda hacer otra cosa que darle la razón me obliga a un cierto grado de laconismo.

En philosophie se confirme une expérience que Schönberg nota à propos de la théorie traditionnelle de la musique : on n'y a pprend vraiment que la façon dont un mouvement commence et se termine, rien sur lui-même, sur son développement. De manière analogue, il faudrait que la philosophie ne se ramène pas à des catégories mais en un certain sens qu'elle se mette à composer.

L'idéologie guette l'esprit qui, se réjouissant de lui-même comme le Zarathoustra de Nietzsche, devient irrésistiblement presque un absolu de lui-même. La théorie empêche cela. Elle corrige la naïverté de sa confiance en soi sans qu'il doive pourtant sacrifier la spontanéité à laquelle la théorie pour sa part veut accéder.

Cuando se afirma y se subraya tal cosa sin que tal diferencia resulte de las palabras mismas, y cuando en lugar de ello, las palabras se refieren precisamente a lo que niegan tales afirmaciones, surge la sospecha de que en tales palabras se esconde precisamente lo negado. Por lo tanto, no hay que creer demasiado en esas afirmaciones.

The task of thought is to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.

The un-naïve thinker knows how far he remains from the object of his thinking, and yet he must always talk as if he had it entirely. This brings him to the point of clowning. He must not deny his clownish traits, least of all since they alone can give him hope for what is denied him.

L'art est la magie délivrée du mensonge d'être vrai.

Il faut abandonner l'illusion qu'elle [la philosophie] pourrait retenir l'essence dans la finitude de ses déterminations.

Only those thoughts which go to extremes can face up to the all-powerful powerlessness of certain agreement.

Bir cümle bir öncekini, hakiki olmad???n? öne sürerek geçersiz k?larken, kendi de bir sonraki cümle taraf?ndan yalanlanmak üzeredir.

A ciência ela própria não tem consciência de si, ela é um instrumento, enquanto o esclarecimento é a filosofia que identifica a verdade ao sistema científico.

All post-Auschwitz culture, including its urgently needed critique, is garbage.

To hate destructiveness one must hate life as well: only death is an image of undistorted life.

Relativism is an illusion that arises as soon as something is handled according to foreign, transcendental criteria.

Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?

Life is conceived as a vast supermarket through which one moves with one's shopping trolley, fetching down ways of life from shelves marked "Existential choices.