Eugenio Trias Quotes
Eugenio Trias was a Spanish philosopher, professor at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, and the most original Spanish-language metaphysician of the late twentieth century. His sweeping Philosophy of the Limit reframed the entire history of Western metaphysics around the figure of the threshold, in which being is not opposed to non-being but is the very limit at which the world meets what it is not. The quotes below are attributed to Eugenio Trias, organized by topic.
Eugenio Trias on God
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Attributed to Eugenio Trias:
“Religion is the human relation to the threshold of the world.”
Eugenio Trias on Nature
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Attributed to Eugenio Trias:
“To exist is to inhabit the limit; the limit is not a boundary, it is a place.”
Eugenio Trias on Truth
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Attributed to Eugenio Trias:
“Beauty is the form in which the limit becomes visible.”
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Attributed to Eugenio Trias:
“Philosophy of the limit is a metaphysics that does not seek to abolish the difference of the world.”
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Attributed to Eugenio Trias:
“Music is the art that thinks the limit without naming it.”