Quotes About Philosophy

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.

Considering what short lived, weak animals men are, is there any study so beneficial as the study of present pleasure?

inflexible muteness of written words doomed the dialogic process Socrates saw as the heart of education.

Como santo Tomás de Aquino, concibo el desacuerdo como el lugar donde «el hierro con hierro se afila».

But what if our capacity to perceive is actually decreasing because we are confronted with too much information, as the philosopher Josef Pieper once wrote?

But, Lumawoo, look. No motto.

Before researchers become researchers they should become philosophers. They should consider what the human goal is, what it is that humanity should create. Doctors should first determine at the fundamental level what it is that human beings depend on for life.

When one existentially awakens from within, the relation of birth-and-death is not seen as a sequential change from the former to the latter. Rather, living as it is, is no more than dying, and at the same time there is no living separate from dying. This means that life itself is death and death itself is life. That is, we do not shift sequentially from birth to death, but undergo living-dying in each and every moment.

When life is lived as a living-and-dying in the primordial, nonsubstantial nothingness, one realizes that life is bottomlessly life and death is bottomlessly death. Life does not change into death, and death does not take away life.

To realize life as absolute is to be existentially amancipated from life itself in that very realization, which understands that life is not life. The same applies to death.

Zen is a double-edged sword, killing words and thoughts, yet at the same time, giving them life. Although beyond human intellect and philosophy, Zen is their root and source.

The ugly can achieve an absoluteness beyond the reach of beauty.

The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.

The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind

Was there little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?

The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.

Scepticism is always a back road leading to some credo or other.

Following the Post Modernist route, we may indeed never arrive at meaning, but not because meaning is not there... only because we are lost in endless linguistic games that are entirely beside the point.

como afirma Cicerón. Me siento satisfecho sabiendo que, sin importar el resultado real, estoy haciendo todo lo que puedo.

realize that by "philosophers" Epictetus doesn't mean professional academics (trust me, you don't want to make a habit of socializing mostly with them), but rather people who are interested in following virtue and cultivating their character.

Touch everything lightly, enjoy it while it is within your reach, and do not regret it when it is gone, since that is the nature of things.

the nature of the world (and by extension, one's place in it) and the nature of human reasoning (including when it fails, as it so often does).

all types of virtue are really just different aspects of wisdom.