Quotes About Philosophy

Sólo la percepción del vacío permite triunfar sobre la muerte, pues, si todo carece de realidad, ¿por qué habría de tenerla la muerte?

To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth, an interminable prayer. As soon as they consent to live, the unbeliever and the man of faith are fundamentally the same, since both have made the only decision that defines a being.

Beatitude through suffering is an illusion, since it requires a reconciliation to the fatality of pain in order to avoid total annihilation.

S? ai geniu înseamn? s? poÈ›i digera influenÈ›ele pân? le faci pierdut? urma.

el budismo te permite acceder a una religión sin tener fe. El budismo es una religión que tan sólo propugna el conocimiento. Te enseña que no somos sino compuestos, que esos compuestos se disuelven, que no tienen realidad, te demuestra tu irrealidad y después te dice: ahora, saca las consecuencias.

There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.

De ce nu putem r?mîne închiÅŸi în noi înÅŸine? De ce umbl?m dup? expresie ÅŸi dup? form?, încercînd s? ne golim de conÅ£inuturi ÅŸi s? sistematiz?m un proces haotic ÅŸi rebel?

Zugleich die Lust auf Provokation und Rückzug haben, instinktmäßig ein Störenfried und aus Überzeugung ein Leichnam sein!

Profundamente, cada passo na vida é um passo na morte e a lembrança disto, um chamado do Nada. Despido do sentido metafísico, o homem ordinário não tem consciência de uma entrada progressiva na morte, ainda que ele não escape mais do que os outros a este destino inexorável.

A te lipsi de iluziile tale e totuna cu a atenta la propria-?i fiin??.

Zadarnic supunem universul È™i ni-l însuÈ™im, atâta vreme cât nu vom fi învins timpul vom r?mâne doar niÈ™te sclavi.

Mientras le preparaban la cicuta, Sócrates aprendía un aria para flauta. '¿De qué te va a servir?', le preguntaron. 'Para saberla antes de morir'.

El paraíso no era un lugar soportable, de lo contrario, el primero hombre se habría adaptado a él; este mundo tampoco lo es, ya que en él se añora el paraíso o se da otro por seguro. ¿Qué hacer? ¿A dónde ir? No hagamos nada, no vayamos a ningún lado, así sin más.

Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and our memory.

After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation, you will find that the only answer, the only reality, is silence.

As far back as I can remember, I've utterly destroyed within myself the pride of being human. And I saunter to the periphery of the Race like a timorous monster, lacking the energy to claim kinship with some other band of apes.

If it is true that by death we once more become what we were before being, would it not have been better to abide by that pure possibility, not to stir from it? What use was this detour, when we might have remained forever in an unrealized plenitude?

A little more fervor in my nihilism and I might — gainsaying everything — shake off my doubts and triumph over them. But I have only the taste of negation, not its grace.

Hegel is chiefly responsible for modern optimism. How could he have failed to see that consciousness changes only its forms and modalities, but never progresses?

In permitting man, Nature has committed much more than a mistake in her calculations: a crime against herself.

The problem of responsibility would have a meaning only if we had been consulted before our birth and had consented to be precisely who we are.

There is nothing to say about anything. So there can be no limit to the number of books.

Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately it is within no one's reach.

Only normal that man should no longer be interested in religion but in religions, for only through them will he be in a position to understand the many versions of his spiritual collapse.