Santiago Kovadloff — Filósofo judío-argentino/Argentine-Jewish Philosopher — “La aventura de pensar”/”The Adventure of Thinking” — Frases sabias/Wise Statements

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Santiago Kovadloff

     Santiago Kovadloff nació en Buenos Aires, 1942. Es ensayista, poeta, traductor de literatura de lengua portuguesa y autor de relatos para niños. Se graduó en Filosofía en la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Es Doctor Honoris Causa por la Universidad de Ciencias Empresariales y Sociales (UCES), Profesor Honorario de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid y miembro del Comité Académico y Científico de la Universidad Ben-Gurion del Neguev, de Israel. Participó como profesor invitado en la Cátedra Latinoamericana “Julio Cortázar” de la Ciudad de Guadalajara, México, en el año 2013.Es miembro de número de la Academia Argentina de Letras, miembro correspondiente de la Real Academia Española y vicepresidente de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias Morales y Políticas. Desde el año 2016 preside el capítulo argentino del Club de Roma.Se desempeña profesionalmente como profesor privado de Filosofía y conferencista. Es colaborador permanente del diario La Nación de Buenos Aires.

Santiago Kovadloff es famoso por su habilidad de condensar pensamientos profundos en la forma de frases.

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Santiago Kovadloff was born in Buenos Aires in 1942. He is an essayist, poet, translator of Portuguese-language literature, and author of children’s stories. He graduated in Philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires. He is Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Business and Social Sciences (UCES), Honorary Professor at the Autonomous University of Madrid and member of the Academic and Scientific Committee of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. He participated as a visiting professor in the “Julio Cortázar” Latin American Chair of the City of Guadalajara, Mexico, in 2013. He is a full member of the Argentine Academy of Letters, corresponding member of the Royal Spanish Academy and vice president of the National Academy of Arts. Moral and Political Sciences. Since 2016, he has chaired the Argentine chapter of the Club of Rome. He works professionally as a private professor of Philosophy and lecturer. He is a permanent collaborator of the newspaper La Nación of Buenos Aires.

Santiago Kovadloff is famous for his ability to condense deep thoughts into a few words in the form of sayings.

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Frases sabias de Santiago Kovadloff/

Wise Statements by Santiago Kovadloff

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“Pertenezco a un pueblo y a una cultura que no se ha resignado a darle la última al dolor y ha convertido sus pesares en materia de esperanza , El judío confía en una interpretación más y cree que es posible volver a empezar. El holocausto no tuvo la última palabra”.

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“I belong to a people and a culture that has not resigned itself to give the last word pain and has converted its sufferings in material for hope. The Jew trusts in an another interpretation and believes it is possible to begin again. The Holocaust did not have the last word.”

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The vocation of a writer who is a philosopher consists in a summed retelling to contribute to the general insomnia. And if we agree with it, it seems to me the I’ve done something like that. I am helping that sleep does not abound Perhaps because I myself am an wakeful person and I can’t be otherwise.
Music tells us what we don’t know, if not what we can’t know it tells us
During hundreds of thousands of years, man fought to open a place in nature; for the first time in in history of our species, the situation is reversed and today in is indispensable to find him a place in nature in the world of man.
Silence can be, then, as much the greatest corollary of lucidity as the irremediable mist in which aptitude is diluted and at times the necessity of articulating an idea or an emotion with leaving behind the world of the predictable and the codifiable.
What you have inherited from your parents, acquire it by your own efforts to be worthy of it.
Death is not something that we will survive. Someone living and stops dying when he expires. To die requires that you were alive.
My home is this woman—–
“My home is this woman who now lives by my side. Like her, with her, everything around her reposes. When she awakes, the things will too. The doors will open again, the water will run again, the steps will bring life to the old staircase, the light will fall again. I will return yo myself, the words, and her voice, like a halo, will surround my day.

“Hay duelo donde hay sufrimiento”.

“There is grief where there suffering.”

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“La decadencia no es una vuelta al pasado, es una condena al presente”.

“Decadence is not a return to the past; it’s a damning of the present.”

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“La vida cotidiana, en apariencia previsible desmedidamente familiar, es la que encierra la

posibilidad de los grandes descubrimientos que rompen con la costumbre”.

“Everyday life, apparently predictable, overly familiar, is that which has within it the possibility of the great discoveries that break with custom.”

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” La política es un ejercicio moderado de la maldad, pero a la vez es imprescindible porque sin ella no hay organización social”.

Politics is an exercise moderated by evil, but at the same time, it is absolutely necessary, because without it, the is no social organization.”

Translations by Stephen A. Sadow

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Libros por Santiago Kovadloff/

Books by Santiago Kovadloff

Published by Stephen Sadow

I live near Boston. I have dedicated my long academic career to seeking the simple in the complex and the complex in the simple. I am keen on free association, metaphor and symbol. I search for explanations by combining the verifiable and tangible with the imagination. Passionate reader of Cervantes, Borges, Cortázar, and the Cuban poet Juana García Abás. Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass and Lewis Carroll’s Complete Works are always on my night table. I love flat water kayaking and tai-chi.

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