Quotes About Philosophy

Occam's razor, the philosophical basis of all science: assume the simplest natural cause. That answer might turn out not to be correct, but we should not resort to more complex reasoning unless it is shown to be necessary.

something: scenario x is responded to by action y. Everyone learns it and then practices it until responses are almost instinctive. It's all part of the "train hard, fight easy" philosophy that's central to military life—though veterans of the campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan smile

No existe justificación divina para el mal. Tal y como afirmaba Darwin: "Dios debe ser débil o perverso".

she would always be, at the very best, a dewdrop on life's river bank.

Many love humanity only in order to forget God with a clear conscience.

Modern history is the dialogue between two men: one who believes in God, another who believes he is a god.

When he is stripped of the Christian tunic and the classical toga, there is nothing left of the European but a pale-skinned barbarian.

Ideas tyrannize the man who has but few.

The greatest modern error is not to proclaim that God died, but to believe that the devil has died.

Why deceive ourselves? Science has not answered a single important question.

In the intelligent man faith is the only remedy for anguish. The fool is cured by "reason," "progress," alcohol, work.

Where Christianity disappears, greed, envy, and lust invent a thousand ideologies to justify themselves.

Reading Nietzsche as a response is not understanding him. Nietzsche is an immense interrogation.

The French Revolution has been the highest wave of the Gnostic tide.

An atheist is respectable as long as he does not teach that the dignity of man is the basis of ethics and that love for humanity is the true religion.

A partisan of equality who is not envious can only be so because he is stupid.

Modern man denies himself every metaphysical dimension and considers himself a mere object of science. But he screams when they exterminate him as such.

Sólo las letras antiguas curan la sarna moderna.

Un diploma de dentista es respetable, pero uno de filósofo es grotesco.

It is fine to demand that the imbecile respect arts, letters, philosophy, the sciences, but let him respect them in silence.

The liberal is always mistaken because he does not distinguish between the consequences he attributes to his intentions and the consequences his intentions effectively include.

That the French Revolution was essentially a religious phenomenon was only seen with clarity by Joseph de Maistre and Jules Michelet.

Die Christen Nietzsches sind nicht die von gestern, sondern die von heute. Kein exakter Historiker, aber vielleicht ein Prophet.

The three hypostasis of egoism are: individualism, nationalism, collectivism. The democratic trinity.