Quotes About Knowledge

The world is my idea:"—this is a truth which holds good for everything that lives and knows, though man alone can bring it into reflective and abstract consciousness.

Pessoas comuns, ao contrário, têm profundo respeito por especialistas de qualquer tipo. Elas não sabem que aqueles que fazem de um assunto sua profissão não amam o assunto, mas os seus ganhos.

mas sabe el necio en su casa, que el sabio en la agena.

What does the absolute mean? Something that is, and of which (under pain of punishment) we dare not ask further whence and why it is. A precious rarity for professors of philosophy!

Thrasymachos. Tell me now, in one word, what shall I be after my death? And mind you be clear and precise. Philalethes. All and nothing! Thrasymachos. I thought so! I gave you a problem, and you solve it by a contradiction. That's a very stale trick. Philalethes. Yes, but you raise transcendental questions, and you expect me to answer them in language that is only made for immanent knowledge. It's no wonder that a contradiction ensues.

No truth therefore is more certain, more independent of all others, and less in need of proof than this, that all that exists for knowledge, and therefore this whole world, is only object in relation to subject/perception of a perceiver, in a word, idea.

The character of the human being is empirical. Only through experience can one become acquainted with it, not merely with that of others, but also with one's own.

Es wäre gut, Bücher zu kaufen, wenn man die Zeit, sie zu lesen, mitkaufen könnte.

Il mondo è una mia rappresentazione: - questa è una verità che vale in rapporto a ciascun essere vivente e conoscente, sebbene l'uomo soltanto sia capace d'accoglierla nella riflessa, astratta coscienza: e s'egli veramente fa questo, con ciò è penetrata in lui la meditazione filosofica.

Kitap zihnin en saf özü, en mükemmel suretidir.

In fact, the balance wheel which maintains in motion the watch of metaphysics that never runs down, is the clear knowledge that this world's non-existence is just as possible as its existence. ?from_The World as Will and Representation_. Translated from the German by E. F. J. Payne. In Two Volumes, Volume II, p. 171

Exigir que um indivíduo conserve na sua mente tudo o que já leu é como querer que ele ainda traga dentro de si tudo o que já comeu na vida.

Dünyada kitaplardan daha tuhaf sat?? metalar?na rastlamak galiba imkâns?zd?r: Anlamayan kimseler taraf?ndan bas?l?r, anlamayan kimseler taraf?ndan sat?l?r, anlamayan kimseler taraf?ndan okunulur, hatta tetkik ve tenkit edilir; ve ÅŸimdilerde art?k onlar? anlamayan kimseler taraf?ndan kaleme al?nmaktad?r.

Autorytety, których przeciwnik wcale nie rozumie, po wiÄ™kszej cz??ci oddziaÅ'ywajÄ… najsilniej.

je?eli dysputujÄ… dwie pospolite gÅ'owy, okazuje siÄ™, ?e or??em wybranym przez nie sÄ… autorytety; bijÄ… siÄ™ wspólnie autorytetami

Seria bom comprar livros se, junto com eles, fosse possível comprar também o tempo para lê-los, mas na maioria das vezes troca-se a compra dos livros pela aquisição do seu conteúdo.

Ignorance is degrading only when it is found in company with riches.

Ah, how little they must have had to think about, to have been able to read so much!

Our brains are not the wisest parts of us. In the great moments of life, when a man decides upon an important step, his action is directed not so much by any clear knowledge of the right thing to do, as by an inner impulse (an instinct) - proceeding from the deepest foundations of his being.

What might otherwise be called the finer part of life, its purest joy, just because it lifts us out of real existence and transforms us into disinterested spectators of it, is pure knowledge which remains foreign to all willing, pleasure in the beautiful, genuine delight in art.

Bref, très peu de gens savent réfléchir, mais tous veulent avoir des opinion ;

We must first learn from experience what we desire and what we can do. Till then we know it not, we are without character, and must often be driven back to our own way by hard blows from without. But if we have finally learnt it, then we have attained to what in the world is called character, the acquired character. This is accordingly nothing but the most perfect knowledge possible of our own individuality.

on the path of objective knowledge, thus starting from the representation, we shall never get beyond the representation, i.e. the phenomenon. We shall therefore remain at the outside of things: we shall never be able to penetrate into their inner nature, and investigate what they are in themselves, in other words, what they may be by themselves.

Students, and learned persons of all sorts and every age, aim as a rule at acquiring information rather than insight. They pique themselves upon knowing about everything—stones, plants, battles, experiments, and all the books in existence. It never occurs to them that information is only a means of insight, and in itself of little or no value.