Quotes About Philosophy

All knowledge, we feel, must be built up upon our instinctive beliefs; and if these are rejected, nothing is left.

Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.

A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities.

For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it.

God is unknown; anything we said about God has no validity, because our knowledge about Him is zero, absolutely nothing!

Who of us knows or can by possibility arrive at a knowledge of the laws that govern our property and lives?

The primary ambition of Nietzsche's critique of knowledge is ... to demonstrate that 'truths' are fictions masking moral commitments.

Properly speaking, should any individual ever have exact, clear knowledge of his own core consciousness?" "I wouldn't know," I said. "Nor would we," said the scientists.

If we have a better understanding of knowledge than we do of such justification or competence, then we can explain the latter through the former.

In fact, it's the very impersonality of impersonal knowledge that renders such knowledge the most ethically potent of all.

Thank God I am not an intellectual! What a garbage of knowledge, what an unnecessary glossary of terms they have, those intellectuals!

The Divine is simply that which science has not yet explained. In effect, God = Infinity - Human Knowledge.

With knowledge comes more doubt.

Whether you know the shape of a pebble or the structure of a solar system, the anxioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it.

It is by no means certain that we advance our philosophical quest by reading Plato or Aristotle. It may increase our knowledge of history but not of the world.

...knowledge of material reality is the knowledge of death.

Knowledge, or more expressively truth,--for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,--truth is an ideal whole.

There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.

What does it mean to be born? After we die, will it be the same thing as it was before we were born? Or a different kind of nothingness? Because there might be knowledge then. Memory.

I analyze religious knowledge and consciousness.

In my view, since the case can be made that knowledge too is a natural kind, the role of pretheoretical intuitions is similarly diminished in epistemology.

During the act of knowledge itself, the objective and subjective are so instantly united, that we cannot determine to which of the two the priority belongs.

We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge--and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves--how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves?

The life which is unexamined is not worth living.