Philosophy Quotes

Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.

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"The human condition is fundamentally tragic."
Fernando Vallejo
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"We are prisoners of language and culture."
Fernando Vallejo
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"Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction."
Fernando Vallejo
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"We are all murderers of silence."
Fernando Vallejo
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"Duty is the instrument through which we abandon ourselves."
Fernando Vallejo
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"Civilization is the art of repressing our true nature."
Fernando Vallejo
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"To be human is to be condemned to meaning-making."
Fernando Vallejo
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"We tell ourselves stories to make sense of the senseless."
Juan Carlos Onetti
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"A life without doubt is a life without depth."
Juan Carlos Onetti
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"We live not according to our principles but according to our circumstances."
Juan Carlos Onetti
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"Identity is something we construct, not something we discover."
Juan Carlos Onetti
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"We are all architects of our own exile."
Juan Carlos Onetti
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"La filosofía es el arte de vivir bien"
Tomás Carrasquilla
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"La ironía de la vida es que buscamos lo que ya poseemos"
Tomás Carrasquilla
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"La filosofía es conversar con la eternidad"
Tomás Carrasquilla
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"The role of the intellectual is to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed."
Rodolfo Walsh
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"The intellectual's duty is to speak when others are silent."
Rodolfo Walsh
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"In the end, we are all accountable for what we know and what we choose to do with that knowledge."
Rodolfo Walsh
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"We are all fragments of a larger whole, broken pieces searching for meaning in an indifferent universe."
Ernesto Sabato
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"Passion without reflection leads to chaos; reflection without passion leads to emptiness."
Ernesto Sabato
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"The exile, whether literal or spiritual, is the natural state of the authentic thinker."
Ernesto Sabato
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"Silence is sometimes the most eloquent form of expression."
Ernesto Sabato
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"Progress without moral awareness is merely the perfection of destruction."
Ernesto Sabato
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"To be human is to be torn between what we are and what we might become."
Ernesto Sabato
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"Evil is often the work of those who believe they are serving good."
Ernesto Sabato
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"The gap between intention and action is where most moral failures occur."
Ernesto Sabato
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"The universe is indifferent to our suffering, and this indifference is strangely liberating."
Ernesto Sabato
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"The divided self is not a pathology but the fundamental human condition."
Ernesto Sabato
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"The marginal figure, the outsider, often sees what the center refuses to acknowledge."
Ernesto Sabato
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"Memory is not a faithful record but a creative reconstruction of experience."
Haroldo Conti