Quotes About Philosophy

ÎnÅ£elese c? nici un destin nu-i mai bun decât altul, dar c? fiecare om trebuie s? dea ascultare celui pe care-l poart? în?untrul s?u.

No less vain to my mind are hope and fear, for they always refer to future events, that is, to events which will not happen to us, who are the minute present.

Desmentir que hay un Dios es afirmar la certeza del concepto divino, pues de lo contrario ignoraríamos cuál es la idea derruida por la negación precitada y por carencia de palabras nuestra negación no podría ni formularse. (Acerca de Unamuno, poeta - Inquisiciones)

Em Roma conversei com filósofos que pensavam que prolongar a vida do homem era prolongar a sua agonia e multiplicar o número das suas mortes.

If an eternal traveler should journey in any direction, he would find after untold centuries that the same volumes are repeated in the same disorder-which, repeated, becomes order: the Order. My solitude is cheered by that elegant hope.

Sentí, en la última página, que mi narración era un símbolo del hombre que yo fui, mientras la escribía y que, para redactar esa narración, yo tuve que ser aquel hombre y que, para ser aquel hombre, yo tuve que redactar esa narración, y así hasta lo infinito.

if the future and the past are infinite, there can not really be a when; in space, because if every being is equidistant from the infinite and the infinitesimal, neither can there be a where.

The world unfortunately is real and I, unfortunately, am Borges

It was also possible that Villari was already dead, and then his life was a dream. That possibility disturbed him, because he couldn't quite figure out whether it felt like a relief or a misfortune; he told himself it was absurd, and he discarded it.

Si el honor y la sabiduría y la felicidad no son para mí, que sean para otros. Que el cielo exista, aunque mi lugar sea el infierno.

I am pleased with defeat because it has occurred, because it is irrevocably united to all those events which are, which were, and which will be, because to censure or to deplore a single real occurrence is to blaspheme the universe.

Pensar es olvidar diferencias, es generalizar, abstraer.

Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river that carries me away, but I am the river

Faptele grave se petrec în afara timpului, fie din pricin? c? trecutul imediat parc? se rupe de viitor, fie din pricin? c? p?rÈ›ile alc?tuitoare nu par s? se înl?nÈ›uiasc? firesc.

Decirse adiós es negar la separación, es decir: Hoy jugamos a separarnos pero nos veremos mañana. Los hombres inventaron el adiós porque se saben de algún modo inmortales, aunque se juzguen contingentes y efímeros.

Me creo indigno del Infierno o de la Gloria, pero nada predigo.

Herakliti thote se njeriu nuk lahet kurre dy here ne te njejtin lume. Ne nuk lahemi kurre ne te njejtin lume, sepse ujerat e tij nderrojne. Akoma me e tmerrshme eshte se ne nuk jemi me pak ujore se lumi. Sa here qe lexojme nje liber, libri ndryshon, ngjyrimi i fjaleve te tij eshte tjeter. Sepse librat jane mbrujtur me te shkuar.

Biri dedi ki: Sen uyan?kl??a deÄŸil, önceki bir düÅŸe uyanm??s?n.O düÅŸ bir baÅŸka düÅŸle sarmall?d?r, o da bir baÅŸkas?yla ve bu böyle sonsuza kadar gider, sonsuz da kum tanelerinin say?s?d?r. Geriye dönerken izlemen gereken yolun sonu yoktur ve sen bir daha gerçekten uyanmadan öleceksin.

History adds that before or after he died, he discovered himself standing before God, and said to Him: I, who have been so many men in vain, wish to be one, to be myself. God's voice answered him out of a whirlwind: I, too, am not I; I dreamed the world as you, Shakespeare, dreamed your own work and among the forms of my dream are you, who like me are many, yet no one.

Dessa correta aplicação da lei da causalidade segue-se que o menor dos fatos pressupõe o inconcebível universo e, inversamente, que o universo necessita do menor dos fatos.

There is no intellectual exercise that is not ultimately pointless.

Una vez, tu finado padre nos dijo que no se puede medir el tiempo por días, como el dinero por centavos o pesos, porque los pesos son iguales y cada día es distinto y tal vez cada hora.

There is no human being on earth capable of declaring with certitude who he is.

La historia madre de la verdad; la idea es asombrosa. Menard, contemporáneo de William James, no define la historia como una indagación de la realidad, sino como su origen. La verdad histórica para él, no es lo que sucedió; es lo que juzgamos que sucedió