Quotes About Philosophy

Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits." —ANTONIO MACHADO

As the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer stated, all truth goes through three steps. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident.

Se ha llegado a decir que «matar el tiempo no es asesinato, sino suicidio».

Un hombre que sufre antes de que sea necesario, sufre más de lo necesario. SÉNECA

Though they were Liberals they were not democrats; nor yet infidels.

And in that faith he died believing, as he had ever believed, that the spirit of evil was stronger than the spirit of good.

He was incapable of anticipating to-morrow's griefs.

in these fits of sad regret from which the latter years of few reflecting men can be free, religion would suffice to comfort him. Yes, religion could console him for the loss of any worldly good.

All suffering is relative to experience, and life while it is everything is also not much at all.

All writing is pigshit.

Vivir no es otra cosa que arder en preguntas.

It is the very reason-for-being of language and grammar that I unhinge.

There where it smells of shit it smells of being. Man could just as well not have shat, not have opened the anal pouch, but he chose to shit as he would have chosen to live instead of consenting to live dead.

To confront the metaphysics I have created for myself, in accordance with the void I carry within me.

Là ou ça sent la merde ça sent l'être. L'homme aurait très bien pu ne pas chier, ne pas ouvrir la poche anale, mais il a choisi de chier comme il aurait choisi de vivre au lieu de consentir à vivre mort. C'est que pour ne pas faire caca, il lui aurait fallu consentir à ne pas être, mais il n'a pas pu se résoudre à perdre l'être, c'est-à-dire à mourir vivant.

My father made no such division between faith and reason. He understood that the act of faith does not mean the end of thought.

A man of politics writes about philosophy: it could be that his true philosophy should be looked for rather in his writings on politics. In every personality there is one dominant and predominant activity: it is here that his thought must be looked for, in a form that is more often than not implicit and at times even in contradiction with what is professly expressed.

Common sense is not a single unique conception, identical in time and space. It is the folklore of philosophy, and, like folklore, it takes countless different forms. Its most fundamental character is that it is a conception which, even in the brain of one individual, is fragmentary, incoherent and inconsequential.

Education is a struggle against instincts which are linked to elemental biological functions, a struggle against nature, in order to dominate it and create man immersed within his own time.

La verità è la tattica della rivoluzione.

Usted cree que el mundo entero es metáfora de algo?

Philosophy appears to concern itself only with the truth, but perhaps expresses only fantasies, while literature appears to concern itself only with fantasies, but perhaps it expresses the truth.

La filosofia sembra che si occupi solo della verità, ma forse dice solo fantasie, e la letteratura sembra che si occupi solo di fantasie, ma forse dice la verità.

it's a theory advanced by two French philosophers who are also psychologists, they hold that we do not have a single soul but a confederation of souls guided by a ruling ego, and every now and then this ruling ego changes, so that although we establish a norm it isn't a stable norm, but a variable one.