Quotes About Philosophy

It is often necessary to make a decision on the basis of knowledge sufficient for action but insufficient to satisfy the intellect.

It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology.

I can feel this heart inside me and I conclude it exists. I can touch this world and I also conclude that it exists. All my knowledge ends at this point. The rest is hypothesis.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

Geometry is knowledge of the eternally existent.

The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.

The more certain our knowledge the less we know.

After such knowledge, what forgiveness?

It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

I have no knowledge of myself as I am, but merely as I appear to myself.

The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness.

All knowledge is but remembrance.

To know, is to know that you know nothing.

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.

Logic is the anatomy of thought.

Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.

Could one imagine a stone's having consciousness? And if anyone can do so-why should that not merely prove that such image-mongery is of no interest to us?

If knowledge is my God, doubt would be my religion.

Knowledge of divine things for the most part is lost to us by incredulity.

If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself.

A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.