Quotes About Philosophy

Leer a Nietzsche como respuesta es no entenderlo. Nietzsche es una interrogación inmensa.

Intelligent optimism is never faith in progress, but hope in a miracle. How can anyone live who does not hope for miracles?

To be an aristocrat is to not believe that everything depends on the will.

Replacing the concrete sense perception of the object with its abstract intellectual construction makes man gain the world and lose his soul.

Dehellenizing Christianity turns it into a sect.

There are words for deceiving others, like "rational." And others, like "dialectic," for deceiving oneself.

Gebildet ist der Mensch, der die höchsten Ergebnisse des Geistes in physiologische Reflexe umformt.

Het gevaarlijke idee is niet het valse, maar het gedeeltelijk juiste.

Precision in philosophy is a false elegance. On the other hand, literary precision is the foundation of aesthetic achievement.

Cambiano meno gli uomini le idee che le idee i loro travestimenti. Nel corso dei secoli dialogano le stesse voci.

Every civilization is a dialogue with death.

El máximo error moderno no es anunciar que Dios murió, sino creer que el diablo ha muerto.

Nicht nach der Wahrheit zu suchen ist ein Zeichen der Mittelmäßigkeit; doch es ist kein Zeichen der Größe, sie zu finden.

Only the defeated come to possess sound ideas about the nature of things.

Maybe nothing has worried and embittered me so much like the fact that life apparently has no other purpose than life.

Let us beware of discourse where the adjective "natural" without quotation marks abounds: somebody is deceiving himself, or wants to deceive us. From natural borders to natural religion.

History is less the evolution of humanity than the unfolding of facets of human nature.

Our freedom has no other guarantee than the barricades which the anarchic countenance of the world throws up against the imperialism of reason.

Im Universum gibt es Inseln der Ordnung. Aber die angebliche Ordnung des Universums ist ein ideologisches Artefakt.

Der authentische Atheismus hat für die menschliche Intelligenz den gleichen Stellenwert wie die Unendlichkeit für die Vorstellungskraft.

The individual today rebels against immutable human nature so that he might refrain from amending his own correctable nature.

No hay tontería en que el hombre moderno no sea capaz de creer, siempre que eluda creer en Cristo

In order to avoid a manly confrontation with nothingness, man erects altars to progress.

No es en el descampado del mundo en donde el hombre muere de frío, es en el palacio de conceptos que el intelecto levanta.