Quotes About Philosophy

Everything that you think is solid is actually fleeting and ephemeral.

docena de relojes para indicar que el Tiempo es una broma, no existe. Sin embargo, es necesario creer.

Y me digo al mismo tiempo que somos pésimos jueces del momento presente, tal vez porque el presente no existe en realidad: todo es recuerdo, esta frase que acabo de escribir ya es recuerdo, es recuerdo esta palabra que usted, lector, acaba de leer.)

Do you believe in hell, Justina? Yes, Susana. And in heaven, too. I only believe in hell, said Susana.

Cehenneme inan?r m?s?n, Justina? - Evet, Susana. Ayr?ca cennete de inan?r?m. - Ben sadece cehenneme inan?r?m- dedi ve gözlerini yumdu.

Nadie vino a verla. Así estuvo mejor. La muerte no se reparte como si fuera un bien. Nadie anda en busca de tristezas.

Siempre he creído que uno debe aceptar la vida tal como es, pero siempre y cuando no tenga remedio.

That's my second rule of life," Dan said. "There's always a guy named Joe.

Destruction is thus always restoration—that is, the destruction of a set of categories that introduce artificial divisions into an otherwise unified ontology.

If the subject is neither fully determined by power nor fully determining of power...the subject exceeds the logic of non contradiction, is an excrescence of logic, as it were.

Es gibt kein Ich vor der Annahme eines Geschlechts.

Why should our bodies end at the skin, or include at best other beings encapsulated by skin? –Donna Haraway, A Manifesto for Cyborgs

not everything has to have a point, some things just are.

Man's Search for Meaning, by Victor Frankel.

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

engaging with a work of ancient philosophy can be a two-way street; bringing it into a discussion can enrich that discussion, which also encouraging us to see the work in light of that discussion.

Socrates identified the practice of philosophy with personal discussion and questioning, refusing to write anything.

Philosophical attention is focused on a more complex matter: the possession of wisdom (sophia – the wisdom loved by the philosophos). It is assumed, taken to be a matter beyond argument, that wisdom is not just knowing individual facts, but being able to relate them to one another in a unified and structured way, one that involves understanding of a field or area of knowledge.

Socrates never raises the question whether there is such a thing as wisdom or expertise.

Socrates is ambitiously searching for understanding of difficult concepts like virtue and courage. But his approach is always to question others, starting only from shared premisses. This kind of ad hominem arguing relies only on what the opponent accepts and what it produces, time after time, are conclusions as to what virtue, courage, friendship and so on are not.

some of Plato's most famous passages about the divided soul he represents the parts of the soul other than reason as non-human animals.

It seems worthwhile, then, to begin with virtue, rather than with a type of ethical theory, and to see what kind of account can be produced.

centrality to the ancient tradition of argument, and also of practical engagement with issues important to our lives.

factors that distance us from the ancient philosophical writers. One is the literal distance of time and the loss of much evidence. Another is the influence of other factors, which we should be aware of, which make our concern with the ancients a selective and changeable one, so that a text like Plato's Republic is read very differently at different times.