#2,965

If one does not believe in God, the only honest alternative is vulgar utilitarianism.
The rest is rhetoric.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 474

#2,963

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 Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 473

#2,939

Everything in the world ultimately rests on its own final “just because.”

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 469

#2,895

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

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 463

#2,892

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

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 463

#2,891

I have seen philosophy gradually fade away between my skepticism and my faith.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 462

#2,881

What is difficult about a difficult philosopher is more often his language than his philosophy.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 461

#2,872

In philosophy a single naïve question is sometimes enough to make an entire system come tumbling down.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 460

#2,841

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

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 455

#2,831

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

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 453

#2,803

To philosophize is to guess, without ever being able to know whether we are right.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 449

#2,791

Formulating the problems of today in a traditional vocabulary strips away their false pretenses.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 448

#2,785

The lower truths tend to eclipse the highest truths.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 447

#2,783

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.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 446

#2,770

The notion of determinism has exercised a corrupting and terrorizing influence on the task of philosophy.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 444

#2,722

The philosopher’s intuitions sometimes dazzle us; his ratiocinations make us bristle with objections.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 438

#2,718

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 Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 437

#2,717

Philosophies begin in philosophy and end in rhetoric.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 437

#2,703

The philosopher becomes unbalanced easily; only the moralist tends not to lose his reason.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 435

#2,693

An “explanation” consists in the end in assimilating a strange mystery to a familiar mystery.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 434