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