Quotes About Philosophy

Recordaba que mi padre solía decir que la razón de vivir era prepararse para estar muerto durante mucho tiempo.

Any live man is better than any dead man.

Laughter is the yesterday's slight beard, the negligee among emotions.

And so I told myself to take that one. Because Father said clocks slay time. He said time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

La pureza es un estado negativo y por tanto contrario a la naturaleza.

When I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind - and that of the minds of the ones who suffer the bereavement. The nihilists say it is the end; the fundamentalists, the beginning; when in reality it is no more than a single tenant or family moving out of a tenement or a town.

I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time. And

Addie: My father said that the reason for living is getting ready to stay dead.

Je me rappelais que mon père avait coutume de dire que le but de la vie c'est de se préparer à rester mort très longtemps.

Padre decía que esa especulación constante centrada en la posición de unas manecillas mecánicas sobre una esfera arbitraria es un síntoma del funcionamiento mental. Excremento, decía padre, como el sudor.

I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

Te lo doy, no para que recuerdes el tiempo, sino para que consigas olvidarlo de vez en cuando durante un momento y no malgastes todo tu aliento intentando conquistarlo. Porque ninguna batalla se gana jamás, como él decía. Ni tan siquiera se libra. Sólo el campo de batalla revela al hombre su propia locura y desesperación, y la victoria es ilusión de filósofos e idiotas.

Padre decía que un hombre es la suma de sus desgracias. Un día crees que las desgracias han abandonado la partida, pero entonces el tiempo se convierte en tu mayor desgracia, decía padre.

When [God] aims for something to be always a-moving, He makes it longways, like a road or a horse or a wagon, but when He aims for something to stay put, He makes it up-and-down ways, like a tree or a man. . . . [I]f He'd a aimed for man to be always a-moving and going somewheres else, wouldn't He a put him longways on his belly, like a snake? It stands to reason He would. Anse in As I Lay Dying, pp. 34-5

Babam bir insan kendi talihsizliklerinin toplam?d?r derdi. Bir gün gelir talihsizlik de yorulur san?rs?n sen ama zaten senin talihsizliÄŸin zaman?n kendisi olur derdi babam.

YaÅŸayan herhangi bir insan herhangi ölü bir insandan iyidir ama yaÅŸayan ya da ölü hiçbir insan baÅŸka bir yaÅŸayan ya da ölü insandan çok daha iyi deÄŸildir.

So you believe in the rightness of man? I said. I will beat the heads off yez all for a shilling, Comyn said. I believe in the pitiableness of man, the subadar said. That is better.

Quizá muramos en ese instante en que nos damos cuenta, en que admitimos, que el mal tiene una estructura lógica.

We can invest trifles with a tragic profundity, which is the world.

Quizá muramos en ese instante en que nos damos cuenta, en que admitimos, que el mal tiene una estructura lógica.

la finalidad de la vida no es otra sino la de aprestarse a estar mucho tiempo muerto.

Gal b?tent t? akimirk?, kai mes suprantame, sutinkame su tuo, kad egzistuoja blogio logika, mes ir numirštame.

If there is a God what the hell is He for?

Walpole, that life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.