Quotes About Philosophy

Damit das Individuum interessant sei, muß die Ethik sein Leben komplizieren.

We disapprove of capitalism not because it promotes inequality, but because it favors the rise of inferior human types.

Human problems are neither exactly definable, nor remotely solvable. He who expects Christianity to solve them has ceased to be a Christian.

Propose solutions? As if the world were not drowning in solutions!

El Occidente habrá muerto, cuando deje de ser la presencia de Grecia en un alma cristiana.

Not seeking the truth is a sign of mediocrity; but it is no sign of greatness to find them.

Austeridad, resignación, modestia, según el dogma moderno, son servidumbres ideológicas.

The fool is scandalized and laughs when he notices that philosophers contradict each other. It is difficult to make the fool understand that philosophy is precisely that: the art of contradicting each other without canceling each other out.

Las matemáticas son la poesía del principio de identidad.

The defeated reactionary always retains the option of entertaining himself with the victor's simplistic ideas.

I am the asylum of all the ideas displaced by modern ignominy.

Between man and nothingness passes the shadow of God.

Entweder man gehört zur Nachkommenschaft Hegels, oder man gehört zur Nachkommenschaft Schopenhauers. Tertium non datur.

The philosophy of Schopenhauer does not necessarily exclude God. It just does not include Him. God would be the goal of the will therein and the only nourishment that would satisfy it.

Adults? Maybe there were only two: Thucydides and Burckhardt.

Al despojarse de la túnica cristiana y de la toga clásica, no queda del europeo sino un bárbaro pálido

Man today does not live in space and time. But in geometry and chronometers.

Men can be divided into those who make their life complicated to gain their soul and those who waste their soul to make their life easier.

The passivity of things deceives us: we manipulate nothing with impudence without hurting a god.

With good humor and pessimism it is not possible to be either wrong or bored.

The theses that the Marxist "refutes" come back to life unscathed behind his back.

La técnica induce insidiosamente a convertir sus categorías reguladoras de la acción en categorías constitutivas de la realidad.

It is indecent, and even obscene, to speak to man of "progress," when every path winds its way up between funerary cypresses.

Marxism and psychoanalysis have been the two traps of the modern intelligence.