Quotes About Philosophy

...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.

Painting' and 'religious experience' are the same thing. It is a question of the perpetual motion of a right idea.

The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing.

For how do we know that the thoughts which occur in dreaming are false rather than those others which we experience when awake, since the former are often not less vivid and distinct than the latter?

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.

Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.

I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.

Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth.

The political spectrum is not linear but circular. In my experience the extreme left always ends up rubbing shoulders with the extreme right. They are philosophically blood brothers.

All theory is against freedom of the will all experience for it.

I, at the age of 17 or 18 as a medical student, suddenly came up against a problem: 'What am I? What is the meaning of my existence as I experience it?'

Thinking is not enough. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any... thing.

Failure is my best friend. If I succeeded, it would be like dying. Maybe worse.

My days among the dead are passed; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old; My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day.

Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.

Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.

The Deist needs none of those tricks and shows called miracles to confirm his faith, for what can be a greater miracle than the creation itself, and his own existence?

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

The process of philosophic and scientific enlightenment has shaken the stability of beliefs held explicitly as articles of faith.

Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

It takes more faith to be an atheist than to believe in God.

I don't have enough faith to be an Atheist.