Quotes About Philosophy

There is no negator who is not famished for some catastrophic yes .

Paganism is the deepening of appearances, while saintliness is the sickness of depths.

We know, we feel that everything has been said, that there is nothing left to say. But we feel less that this truth affords language a strange, even unsettling status which redeems it. Words are ultimately saved because they have ceased living.

I have tried to be faithful to my knowledge, to force my instincts to yield, and realized that it is no use wielding the weapons of nothingness if you cannot turn them against yourself.

patíbulos, calabouços e masmorras só prosperam à sombra de uma fé - dessa necessidade de crer que infestou o espírito para sempre. O diabo empalidece comparado a quem dispõe de uma verdade, de sua verdade.

La scienza è l'elusione della saggezza in nome della conoscenza del mondo.

Se non si ha dentro di sé la passione dell'insolubile, non è possibile immaginare gli eccessi di cui è capace la negazione, l'impietosa lucidità della negazione.

Ces idées qui survolent l'espace, et qui, tout à coup, se heurtent aux parois du crâne...

Because to exist is to evaluate, to emit judgments, and because abstention, when it is not the effect of apathy or cowardice, requires an effort no one manages to make.

Aristotle, Aquinas, Hegel—three enslavers of the mind. The worst form of despotism is the system, in philosophy and in everything.

Whereas all beings have their place in nature, man remains a metaphysically straying creature, lost in Life, a stranger to the Creation.

Lumea nu este o justificare a lui Dumnezeu, istoria îns?, este una a omului.

The abundance of solutions to the aspects of existence is equalled only by their futility.

The best of myself, that point of light which distances me from everything, I owe to my infrequent encounters with a few bitter fools, a few disconsolate bastards, who, victims of the rigor of their cynicism, could no longer attach themselves to any vice.

De cierto tipo de vigilias se desprende el cuestionar el nacimiento.

We dismiss the skeptic, we speak of an "automatism of doubt," while we never say of a believer that he has fallen into an "automatism of faith." Yet faith is much more mechanical than doubt, which has the excuse of proceeding from surprise to surprise — inside perplexity, it is true.

What makes bad poets worse is that they read only poets (just as bad philosophers read only philosophers), whereas they would benefit much more from a book of botany or geology. We are enriched only by frequenting disciplines remote from our own. This is true, of course, only for realms where the ego is rampant, §

The future appeals to you? All yours! Myself I prefer to keep to the incredible present and the incredible past. I leave it to you to face the Incredible itself.

What is the point of what we say? Is there any meaning to this series of propositions which constitutes our talk? And do these propositions, taken one by one, have any object? We can talk only if we set aside this question, or if we raise it as infrequently as possible.

If you are doomed to devour yourself, nothing can keep you from it: a trifle will impel you as much as a tragedy. Resign yourself to erosion at all times: your fate wills it so.

Naprzeciwko czÅ'owieka abstrakcyjnego, który myÅ›li dla przyjemnoÅ›ci myÅ›lenia, staje czÅ'owiek organiczny, myÅ›lÄ…cy pod naciskiem ?yciowej nierównowagi, znajdujÄ…cy siÄ™ poza dziedzinami nauki i sztuki. Podoba mi siÄ™ myÅ›lenie zachowujÄ…ce jeszcze woÅ" krwi i ciaÅ'a; od pustej abstrakcji tysiÄ…c razy wolÄ™ refleksjÄ™ wybÅ'yskujÄ…cÄ… z pÅ'ciowego roznamiÄ™tnienia lub z nerwowej depresji.

Deep inside, each man feels — and believes — himself to be immortal, even if he knows he will perish the next moment. We can understand everything, admit everything, realize everything, except our death, even when we ponder it unremittingly and even when we are resigned to it.

After the Spanish publication of the 'Précis,' two Andalusian students asked me if it was possible to live without "fundamentación." I answered that it was true that I had found no solid basis anywhere and that I had nonetheless managed to endure, for with the years one got used to everything, even vertigo. Then, too, one does not constantly keep watch and interrogate oneself, absolute lucidity being incompatible with breathing.

Powodem, dla którego kiepscy poeci stajÄ… siÄ™ jeszcze gorsi, jest to, ?e czytujÄ… wyÅ'Ä…cznie innych poetów (tak jak marni filozofowie czytajÄ… tylko filozofów), podczas gdy o wiele wiÄ™kszy po?ytek wyciÄ…gnÄ™liby z jakieÅ› ksi??ki o botanice czy geologii. Wzbogacamy siÄ™ jedynie, obcujÄ…c z dyscyplinami odlegÅ'ymi od wÅ'asnej. Tyczy siÄ™ to zresztÄ…, co oczywiste, tylko dziedzin w których panoszy siÄ™ Ja.