Quotes About Philosophy

The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities, and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.

Biblical religion teaches that God is a person, and that our relationship with Him is personal. He speaks and we hear, mouth to ear. What He says we are to believe and do. This is very practical and mundane in a sense. Philosophy, by way of contrast, regards God as something to contemplate, discuss, and meditate on. Philosophy, thus, always moves away from words into mystical experience, away from laws and commands into feelings.

To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life.

At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.

Ethics and aesthetics are one.

che c'entra questo con le stelle? What has this to do with the stars?

Truth is always fascinating because it always lies in beauty.

3 REALTÀ E RAGIONE

Whenever the humble sense of human thought's essential reform-ability is not understood, a metamorphosis is ushered in: philosophy becomes ideology. And this metamorphosis is realized to the extent to which it can be considered "normal" to impose a certain conception of life. It is in this way that the violence of power makes its appearance.

Life is a very sad piece of buffoonery, because we have… the need to fool ourselves continuously by the spontaneous creation of a reality (one for each and never the same for everyone) which, from time to time, reveals itself to be vain and illusory.

The history of mankind is the history of ideas.

Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be, like the reality of yesterday, an illusion tomorrow.

Don Pepe was a Mexican man: a fatalist. He meant to impart much more than comfort. He meant that all good things would also end. All joy would crumble. And death would visit each and every one of them. He meant that regimes and ancient orders and cultures would all collapse. The world as we know it becomes a new world overnight.

If you were born to be a nail, you cannot curse the hammer.

The world of reason must be a lonely place," she said.

Me decía: ¡habrían tenido que hacerme leer a Sade antes que todas las demás cosas!

I am the only one who hasn't changed. I remain Catholic and atheist, thank God.

Age is something that doesn't matter unless you're a cheese

Even today, I've no idea what the truth is, or what I did with it.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.

In the end, belief and the lack of it amount to the same thing. If someone were to prove to me—right this minute—that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior.

Thank God I'm an atheist!

I'm still an atheist, thank God.