Quotes About Philosophy

Se puede llegar a morir de abstracción

Elevo los brazos y caigo en el vacío. ¿Qué hacer? ¿Qué vivir? ¿Cuánto? ¿Cómo? ¿Dónde? Y… ¿por qué?

Vamos en una cárcel racional que navega dentro de un loco.

Yo era el que pensaba, ¿pero quién me pensaba? Yo era la conciencia, luego la conciencia de la conciencia, luego la conciencia de la conciencia de la conciencia...

One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.

I don't live in France, I live in myself.

God does not exist, God is not good. All that awaits us is the cat who will urinate on our grave.

He who understands philosophy understands laughter. That mysterious Word at the beginning, mentioned in the Bible, is a divine guffaw.

Quien actúa de modo automático es esencia sin existencia".

So you are Catholic? Didn't know that. I am nothing, I said. God knows God is no friend of mine. But I envy people who believe in this crap. They don't worry about the meaning of life and things, whereas I do.

If Joshua had to put one sticker on his car (which he didn't have) it would be: Whatever is, is either in itself or in the other. Who on the street would ever understand what that meant?

it. In the mind there is no free will, but the mind is determined to will this or that by a cause that is also determined by another, and this again by another, and so on to infinity.

One of the great merits of Meillassoux's book is that it has (re)opened not so much the question of the relationship between philosophy and science as the question of whether they are speaking about the same world.

It is not about recentering the subject (via the effect of recognition), but about decentering her radically, producing a subjective split in its purest form. The temporal dimension comes into play at this very juncture.

Aquel Dios del que había oído hablar, pero que, desde hacía largo tiempo, no se preocupaba de negar ni de reconocer, dedicado solamente a vivir como si no existiera, ahora, en ciertos momentos de abatimiento sin motivo, de terror sin peligro, le parecía oírlo gritar dentro de sí: Yo existo

O fossero di que' prudenti che s'adombrano delle virtù come de' vizi, predicando sempre che la perfezione sta nel mezzo; e il mezzo lo fissan giusto in quel punto dov'essi sono arrivati, e ci stanno comodi.

Sometimes, however, a man can grasp this without being a great metaphysician, when he is still fresh to the problem; and it is only by discussing it, and hearing it discussed, that he becomes incapable of understanding it.

of life and death," said Master Kung.

Objectivism holds that the good must be defined by a rational standard of value, that pleasure is not a first cause, but only a consequence

In the long run principles are just more important than expediency.

There is a place in the world, I believe, for thought.

A wise man once said, don't die, it's not as fun as it seems

Whenever we suffer — no matter what the severity of our suffering is — we have the ability to find meaning in the situation.

If the gods exist, then it does not matter whether or not this is something that one knows.