Don Colacho’s Aphorisms

If one does not believe in God, the only honest alternative is vulgar utilitarianism. The rest is rhetoric. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: S...

That the abandonment of the “what for” in the sciences has been productive is indisputable, but it is an admission of defeat. Escolios a un ...

Everything in the world ultimately rests on its own final “just because.” Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 469

It is fine to demand that the imbecile respect arts, letters, philosophy, the sciences, but let him respect them in silence. Escolios a un T...

The principle of inertia and the notion of natural selection eliminated the necessity of attributing meaning to facts, but they did not demo...

I have seen philosophy gradually fade away between my skepticism and my faith. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 462

What is difficult about a difficult philosopher is more often his language than his philosophy. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p...

In philosophy a single naïve question is sometimes enough to make an entire system come tumbling down. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selecc...

“Meaning,” “significance,” “importance,” are terms which do not merely designate transitive relations. There are things with meaning, signif...

If determinism is real, if only that can happen which must happen, error does not exist. Error supposes that something happened that should ...

To philosophize is to guess, without ever being able to know whether we are right. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 449

Formulating the problems of today in a traditional vocabulary strips away their false pretenses. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , ...

The lower truths tend to eclipse the highest truths. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 447

It is upon the antinomies of reason, upon the scandals of the spirit, upon the ruptures in the universe, that I base my hope and my faith. E...

The notion of determinism has exercised a corrupting and terrorizing influence on the task of philosophy. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Sel...

The philosopher’s intuitions sometimes dazzle us; his ratiocinations make us bristle with objections. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selecci...

Since philosophy is a dialogue, there is no reason to suppose that the last one to give his opinion is the one who is right. Escolios a un T...

Philosophies begin in philosophy and end in rhetoric. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 437

The philosopher becomes unbalanced easily; only the moralist tends not to lose his reason. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 435

An “explanation” consists in the end in assimilating a strange mystery to a familiar mystery. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. ...