When you’re told that something is impossible, is that the end of the conversation, or does that start a second dialogue in your mind?

Vivir sin filosofar es, propiamente, tener los ojos cerrados, sin tratar de abrirlos jamás

Los hombres necesitados no son hombres libres

escribir para rebelarse sin provecho a pesar de la derrota ya prevista

If a man, without exercising effort and without altering his standpoint on reading, hearing, or seeing another man’s work, experiences a mental condition which unites him with that man and with other people who also partake of that work of art, then the object evoking that condition is a work of art.

Art is a bridge across eras, cultures, and lifetimes — a kind of immortality

There is another reality, the genuine one, which we lose sight of. This other reality is always sending us hints, which without art, we can’t receive

La ética como reflexión avanza, la ética como realidad en el mundo puede retroceder

Philosophy - in every field of inquiry - is what you have to do until you figure out what questions you should have been asking in the first place

Soy amigo de Platón, pero soy más amigo de la verdad