Quotes About Philosophy

Baruch Spinoza

En la reminiscencia, en efecto, el alma tiene el pensamiento de esta sensación, pero no en la continuidad de su duración. Así, la idea de la sensación no es la duración misma de la sensación, es decir, ella no es propiamente su memoria. En cuanto a saber si las ideas mismas están sujetas a alguna corrupción, lo veremos en la Filosofía.

seulement la foi vraie et la raison qui nous conduisent à la connaissance du bien et du mal.

Most of those who have written about the Affects, and men's way of living, seem to treat, not of natural things, which follow the common laws of nature, but of things that are outside nature. Indeed they seem to conceive man in nature as a dominion within a dominion. For they believe that man disturbs, rather than follows, the order of nature, that he has absolute power over his actions, and that he is determined only by himself.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.

The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.

Dios es causa inmanente, pero no transitiva, de todas las cosas. [64]

David Hume, the great eighteenth century Scottish philosopher, had put the cat among the pigeons with his notion of scepticism: that nothing can be proved, except in mathematics, and that much of what we take to be fact is merely conjecture.

Every action makes you a fragmentary existence. I hold on to my nature as an entirety only by refusing to act--or at least by denying the superiority of time, which is reserved for action.

Theology. What is the fall? If it is unity become duality, it is God who has fallen. In other words, is not creation the fall of God?

What do I care if you are good? Be beautiful! and be sad!

Alas, the vices of man, as horrifying as they are presumed to be, contain proof (if only in their infinite expansiveness!) of his bent for the infinite.

There is no more hope for meaning. And without a doubt this is a good thing: meaning is mortal.

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.

Postmodernity is the simultaneity of the destruction of earlier values and their reconstruction. It is renovation without ruination.

Philosophy has never been anything but a disavowal of the reality principle.

Dead periods have to be left to take their chances. This goes for the present too, which we should not try to disturb in its melancholy deliquescence.

The dying does not amount to much ... it is the thinking about it that hurts.

I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.

I find the older I get, the more I realize that time is really an illusion. Its like something we created, a constraint that we created so that we feel like we have control of something we have absolutely no control of.

I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!

One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism.

One of the great problems of philosophy is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is what is; values are what ought to be.

Reason, I sacrifice you to the evening breeze.