Quotes About Philosophy

Time and space. Castillian needs two words : ' tiempo ' and ' espacio '. Quechua has one : ' pacha '. Pacha is space, and Pacha is time, for neither exists without the other.

They are trying to be significant in their universe—trying to mean something more than a random collision of molecules. Though modern philosophy tells them they are nothing, their hearts tell them something else. Because their minds cannot fathom what their hearts know, they feel the weight of the God-placed burden. Art often seems irrational, because the heart is reaching beyond the mind.

A veces me embarga la intuición de la profundidad, de que somos más que el mero momento que vivimos y que la carne efímera.

Acaso pueden ser generadoras de algún pequeño consuelo estas malditas muertes, después de todo?

sin pensar en que nuestra existencia tiene un fin.

Sin embargo, y a pesar de ello, los escritores nos empeñamos en poner #Palabras en la nada

Morir es parte de la vida, no de la muerte: hay que vivir la muerte. Iona Heath

Morir es parte de la vida, no de la muerte: hay que vivir la muerte. Doctora Iona Heath

Emmanuel Carrère opina lo mismo: <>.

universo eterno y ordenado resulta mucho más consolador que esa atroz estupidez del ciego azar. Pero

If God was male and woman was not male, then whatever God was, woman was not.

For what's the point in thinking about an end to your present sorrows, when you're a prisoner of events, a prisoner of time.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

For if men needed speech in order to learn to think, they had a still greater need for knowing how to think in order to discover the art of speaking - Rousseau

A feeble body makes a feeble mind. I do not know what doctors cure us of, but I know this: they infect us with very deadly diseases, cowardice, timidity, credulity, the fear of death. What matter if they make the dead walk, we have no need of corpses; they fail to give us men, and it is men we need.

I am trying to add a book -that i am reading now. In spanisch- Schiller o la invención del idealismo alemán Best regards Jorge

Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms. [Carnap's famous plea for tolerance to which W.V. Quine took exception.]

Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.

Les métaphysiciens sont des musiciens sans dons musicaux.

Metaphysiker sind Musiker ohne musikalische Fähigkeit.

Wir werden einen Satz wie Die Welt ist die Selbstverwirklichung Gottes nicht widerlegen, indem wir etwa zu beweisen versuchen: Die Welt ist nicht die Selbstverwirklichung Gottes. Damit würden wir, wo die Metaphysiker den Bock melken, das Sieb unterhalten.

Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.

but why should I waste wisdom on a river-turtle?

He drew from under the table a sheet of strangely scented yellow-Chinese paper, the brushes, and slab of India ink. In cleanest, severest outline he had traced the Great Wheel with its six spokes, whose centre is the conjoined Hog, Snake, and Dove (Ignorance, Anger, and Lust), and whose compartments are all the heavens and hells, and all the chances of human life.