Quotes About Philosophy

Leibniz's machine was designed to automate the dreary task of solving moral problems

the problem with philosophy problems is that they don't have proper solutions

Out of them all, Socrates is the hardest to deconstruct... Indeed, he may just be indeconstructible.

However, it's in a less formal book by Bentham, The Commonplace Book, that you find the phrase 'the happiness of the greatest number', which really sums up the philosophy. ('commonplace books' being a kind of posh scrapbook popular at the time with intellectuals to copy out their favourite poems and so on.)

In such times one realises to what a sad species of animal one belongs.

We are too late for the gods and too early for Being.

Das Nichts nichtet

Mere anxiety is the source of everything

In the midst of beings as a whole an open place occurs. There is a clearing, a lighting... Only this clearing grants and guarantees to us humans a passage to those beings that we ourselves are not, and access to the being that we ourselves are.

Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.

Die Sprache ist das Haus des Seins.

Language is the house of Being.

Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.

Being the rational animal, man must be capable of thinking if he really wants to. Still, it may be that man wants to think, but cannot.

Nietzsche hat mich kaputt gemacht.

To make of the truth a goddess amounts to turning the mere notion of something, namely the concept of the essence of truth, into a personality.

We never come to thoughts. They come to us.

This ground itself needs to be properly accounted for by that for which it accounts, that is, by the causation through the supremely original matter – and that is the cause as causa sui. This is the right name for the god of philosophy. Man can neither pray nor sacrifice to this god. Before the causa sui, man can neither fall to his knees in awe nor can he play music and dance before this god.

Do we know ourselves—our "self"? How are we supposed to be ourselves if we are not our selves? And how can we be our selves without knowing who we are, such that we are certain of being the ones we are?

Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god's withdrawal.

Vsakdo je drugi in nih?e ni on sam.

In its factical existence, any particular Dasein either 'has the time' or 'does not have it'. It either 'takes time' for something or 'cannot allow any time for it'. Why does Dasein 'take time', and why can it 'lose' it? Where does it take time from? How is this time related to Dasein's temporality?

Nobody will deny that there is an interest in philosophy today. But—is there anything at all left today in which man does not take an interest, in the sense in which he understands interest?

Das Fragen baut an einem Weg.