Quotes About Philosophy

One expects philosophy to promote, and even to accelerate, the practical and technical business of culture by alleviating it, making it easier. {9}

let himself be drawn hither by the coercion of the phenomena themselves

Philosophy, then, is that thinkins with which one can start nothing and about which housemaids necessarily laugh. Such a definition of philosophy is not a mere joke but is something to think over. We shall fo well to remember occasionally that by our strolling we can fall into a well whereby we may not reach ground for quite some time.

Man stares at what the explosion of the atom bomb could bring with it. He does not see that the atom bomb and its explosion are the mere final emission of what has long since taken place, has already happened.

We do not have any clear, common and simple relation to reality and to ourselves. That is the big problem of the Western world.

The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.

The one: how it is (what it, Being, is) and also how not-Being (is) impossible. This is the pathway of grounded trust

Overman is the man who grounds Being anew-in the rigor of knowledge and in the grand style of creation.

On this "way," if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way, it is always and only the same question of the "meaning of beyng" that is asked.

Die Wiederholung des Möglichen ist weder ein Wiederbringen des Vergangenen noch ein Zurückbinden der Gegenwart an das Überholte. Die Wiederholung lässt sich, einem entschlossenen Sichentwerfen entspringend, nicht vom Vergangenen überreden, um es als das vormals Wirkliche nur wiederkehren zu lassen. Die Wiederholung erwidert viel mehr die Möglichkeit der dagewesenen Existenz.

Iedereen is de ander, en niemand is zichzelf.

I dwell, you dwell. The way in which you are and I am, the manner in which we humans are on the earth, is Buan, dwelling. To be a human being means to be on the earth as a mortal. It means to dwell.

Sartre expresses the basic tenet of existentialism in this way: Existence precedes essence. In this statement he is taking existentia and essentia according to their metaphysical meaning, which from Plato's time on has said that essentia precedes existentia. Sartre reverses this statement. But the reversal of a metaphysical statement remains a metaphysical statement. With it he stays with metaphysics in oblivion of the truth of Being.

Language speaks and not the human.

Problemas fundamentales de la fenomenología

Thought has the gift of thinking back, a gift given because we incline toward it

Nietzsche did track down Platonism in its most covert form: Christianity and its secularizations are thoroughly Platonism for the people.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: El que tiene grandes pensamientos, a menudo comete grandes errores (Martin Heidegger)

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

Expelled from the truth of Being, man everywhere circles around himself as the animal rationale.

Our thinking today is charged with the task to think what the Greeks have thought in an even more Greek manner.

Philosophy will not be able to effect an immediate transformation of the present condition of the world. This is not only true of philosophy, but of all merely human thought and endeavor. Only a God can save us. The sole possibility that is left for us is to prepare a sort of readiness, through thinking and poeticizing, for the appearance of the God or for the absence of the God in the time of foundering for in the face of the God who is absent, we founder. Only a God can save us.

Echte Erinnerung ist Zuwendung zum unerschlossenen Inwendigen des Gewesenen. Echtes Erinnern ist ein Ahnen.

If God, as the supra-sensory ground and goal, of all reality, is dead; if the supra-sensory world of the Ideas has suffered the loss of its obligatory, and above it, its vitalizing and up-building power, then nothing more remains to which Man can cling, and by which he can orient himself.