Gianni Vattimo > Quotes

“I am not proposing any return to reality—to foundations, to the solidity of an ontology that has its feet on the ground—against the risks of rampant irrationalism, as it seems to me is happening today in certain returns to phenomenology, now combined with the attention of the cognitive sciences,”
― Gianni Vattimo, Of Reality: The Purposes of Philosophy

“the worrying gap that seems to persist between the spontaneity of reason and the passivity of sensibility can be overcome if one no longer thinks of nature exclusively in the deterministic terms of modern scientism;”
― Gianni Vattimo, Of Reality: The Purposes of Philosophy

“the dissolution of reality in interpretation is also an (act of) interpretation, which puts the historicity of the interpreter into play, and is not a discovery or a shedding of light onto a past error that would be uncovered on the basis of an objective awareness of the facts.”
― Gianni Vattimo, Of Reality: The Purposes of Philosophy

“Thanks to God, I'm an atheist.”
― Gianni Vattimo, Christianity, Truth, and Weakening Faith: A Dialogue

“What distinguishes Nietzsche’s from McDowell’s is solely a more explicit awareness of the always social, and thus authoritarian, character of Bildung and of tradition.”
― Gianni Vattimo, Of Reality: The Purposes of Philosophy

“Si se le da la razón a Popper, como creo que debe hacerse, la conclusión a la cual se debe llegar es que la verdad misma es enemiga de la sociedad abierta y, en particular, de toda política democrática.”
― VATTIMO GIANNI