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“Todos deben ser amados igualmente, pero cuando no se puede socorrer a todos, ante todo se ha de mirar por el bien de aquellos que, conforme a las circunstancias de lugares y tiempos de cada cosa, se hallan más unidos a ti como por una especie de suerte.”
― San Agustín

“Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness; and if you are never solitary, you are never religious.”
― Alfred Whitehead

“El fin último de todo asunto amoroso es más importante que todos los demás fines de la vida del hombre; y por lo tanto, es merecedor de la profunda seriedad con que cada uno lo persigue. En efecto, lo que aquí se decide es nada menos que la composición de la siguiente generación.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer , The World as Will and Representation, Volume I

“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.”
― Bertrand Russell

“En realidad nosotros no sabemos nada, pues la verdad permanece oculta”
― Demócrito

“La clase de filosofía que se elige depende de la clase de hombre que se es.”
― Johann Gottlieb Fichte

“The world of being is unchangeable, rigid, exact, delightful to the mathematician, the logician, the builder of metaphysical systems, and all who love perfection more than life. The world of existence is fleeting, vague, without sharp boundaries, without any clear plan or arrangement, but it contains all thoughts and feelings, all the data of sense, and all physical objects, everything that can do either good or harm, everything that makes any difference to the value of life and the world. According to our temperaments, we shall prefer the contemplation of the one or of the other.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy

“Sick and yet happy, in peril and yet happy, dying and yet happy, in exile and happy, in disgrace and happy.”
― Epictetus

“The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.”
― Epictetus

“The philosopher's lecture room is a 'hospital': you ought not to walk out of it in a state of pleasure, but in pain; for you are not in good condition when you arrive.”
― Epictetus

“Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.”
― Epicurus

“Non fui, fui, non sum, non curo.”
― epicureans

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Der Tod ist kein Ereignis des Lebens. Den Tod erlebt man nicht.
Wenn man unter Ewigkeit nicht unendliche Zeitdauer, sondern Unzeitlichkeit versteht, dann lebt der ewig, der in der Gegenwart lebt.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“In studying a philosopher, the right attitude is neither reverence nor contempt, but first a kind of hypothetical sympathy, until it is possible to know what it feels like to believe in his theories, and only then a revival of the critical attitude, which should resemble, as far as possible, the state of mind of a person abandoning opinions which he has hitherto held. Contempt interferes with the first part of this process, and reverence with the second. Two things are to be remembered: that a man whose opinions and theories are worth studying may be presumed to have had some intelligence, but that no man is likely to have arrived at complete and final truth on any subject whatever. When an intelligent man expresses a view which seems to us obviously absurd, we should not attempt to prove that it is somehow true, but we should try to understand how it ever came to seem true. This exercise of historical and psychological imagination at once enlarges the scope of our thinking, and helps us to realize how foolish many of our own cherished prejudices will seem to an age which has a different temper of mind.”
― Bertrand Russell

“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.”
― René Descartes

“Preferring a search for objective reality over revelation is another way of satisfying religious hunger.”
― Edward O. Wilson, Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

“. . . a nation is not an idea only of local extent, and individual momentary aggregation; but it is an idea of continuity, which extends in time as well as in numbers and in space. And this is a choice not only of one day, or one set of people, not a tumultuary and giddy choice; it is a deliberate election of ages and of generations; it is a constitution made by what is ten thousand times better than choice, it is made by the peculiar circumstances, occasions, tempers, dispositions, and moral, civil, and social habitudes of the people, which disclose themselves only in a long space of time. It is a vestment, which accommodates itself to the body. Nor is prescription of government formed upon blind, unmeaning prejudices—for man is a most unwise and a most wise being. The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment, is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right.”
― Edmund Burke