Quotes About Philosophy

Die Versuchung des Paganismus ist nicht die Immortalität, sondern der Moral. Ein ungläubiger Heide hat die Ethik erfunden.

They have buried metaphysics so many times that it must be considered immortal.

Negarse a admirar es la marca de la bestia.

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

Mehr als eine ideologische Strategie ist die Linke eine Lexikographische Taktik.

The reactionary does not aspire to turn back, but rather to change direction.

Die Fanatiker der Freiheit enden als Theoretiker der Polizei. Die Doktrin Fichtes zum Beispiel gipfelt in einer Theorie des Reisepasses.

Nothing upsets the unbeliever as much as defenses of Christianity based on intellectual skepticism and internal experience.

Racionalismo es el seudónimo oficial del Gnosticismo.

Die marxistische Soziologie ist die aristotelische Physik der Sozialwissenschaften.

Aufklärung es la traducción circunspecta de Gnosis.

To avenge Nietzsche's attacks on his disciples, Christ ironically prepared to create the Nietzscheans.

Authentic atheism is as important to human intelligence as infinity is to imagination.

To live is modern man's only value. Even the modern hero does not die except in the name of life.

To educate the soul consists in teaching it to transform its envy into admiration.

Das Universum ist nicht System, das heißt: logischer Zusammenhang. Sondern heirarchische Struktur von Paradoxen.

There are two equally erroneous attitudes toward Marxism: disdaining what it teaches, believing what it promises.

Observing life is too interesting to waste time living it.

To be on the left is to believe that the omens of catastrophe are omens of prosperity.

By fusing Neoplatonism and Zoroastrianism, by identifying evil with matter, the Gnostic automatically divinizes the spirit.

Apologetics should mix skepticism and poetry. Skepticism to strangle idols, poetry to seduce souls.

La filosofía honesta no pretender explicar sino circunscribir el misterio».

Optimisim is a fairly modern invention. — Classical literature lacks this vulgar sentiment.

To philosophize is to guess, without ever being able to know whether we are right.