Quotes About Philosophy

Man is free, save for his depths.

Listening to Bach, one sees God come into being. His music generates divinity After a Bach oratorio, cantata, or passion, one feels that God must be. Otherwise, Bach's music would be only heartrending illusion. Theologians and philosophers wasted so many days and nights searching for proofs of his existence, ignoring the only valid one: Bach.

The human being delivered to himself, without any partiality for elegance, is a monster.

What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts.

Life is legalized, consecrated absurdity.

The universal view melts things into a blur

Not to haw been born, merely musing on that-what happiness, what freedom, what space!

All thinkers are failures of action who avenge their failure by means of concepts.

Revolutions is a sublime of bad literature.

If the Jews have not inflicted Him upon us, they nevertheless bear the responsibility of having conceived Him. That is a flaw in their genius. They could have done better.

What is known as "wisdom" is ultimately only a perpetual "thinking it over," i.e., non-action as first impulse.

It's not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.

for it is likely that the apogee of metaphysical torment is to be located well before that universal insipidity which followed the advent of Philosophy.

The only minds which seduce us are the minds which have destroyed themselves trying to give their lives a meaning.

I would give the whole universe and all of Shakespeare for a grain of ataraxy.

Not to have been born, merely musing on that—what happiness, what freedom, what space!

Only one thing matters: learning to be the loser.

Without God, everything is nothingness; and God? Supreme nothingness.

everything leads us to assume that man is the last caprice nature has allowed herself.

But we are fundamentally, biologically unsuited to "understand.

Once my body gives me the slip, how, I wonder, with such carrion on my hands, will I combat the capitulation of my organs?

Ofiara muzyczna, Sztuka fugi, Wariacje Goldbergowskie: w muzyce, tak jak w filozofii i we wszystkim, lubiÄ™ to, co sprawia ból przez uporczywo??, nawracanie, przez nieskoÅ"czony powrót, który dotyka najdalszych gÅ'Ä™bi bytu i wywoÅ'uje ledwo mo?liwÄ… do zniesienia przyjemno??.

Did they relish their role as undesirables? Did they seek to be alone on earth in principle?

A man who has completely vanquished selfishness, who retains no trace of it whatever, cannot live longer than twenty-one days