Aphorisms

Language is the most precious and at the same time the most dangerous good that has been given to man. – Hölderlin

Man is a god when he dreams, a beggar when he reflects. – Hölderlin

My mission is to kill time, and time’s is to kill me in turn. One feels at ease among murderers – Cioran

Skepticism is the intoxication of the dead end. – Cioran

Golden rule: leave an incomplete image of yourself. – Cioran

Anything I can reach with a ladder does not interest me. – Wittgenstein

In my thinking, as in any man’s, hang the withered remains of my earlier (already dead) thoughts. – Wittgenstein

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself. – Wittgenstein

To be conscious is not to be in time – T.S. Eliot

Only through time time is conquered – T.S. Eliot

Nothing is more fertile than ignorance that is aware of itself. – Ortega y Gasset

Whenever you teach, teach people at the same time to doubt what you teach. – Ortega y Gasset

Individually or collectively, youth needs to believe itself, a priori, superior. Of course it is wrong, but that is precisely the great right of youth: it has the right to be wrong with impunity. – Ortega y Gasset

Only he who says nothing is incapable of contradicting himself – Unamuno

The way to hit the nail on the head once is to hit the horseshoe a hundred times. – Unamuno