Quotes About Knowledge

I was aware that the reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of thoughts.

hay pocas personas que consientan en decir lo que creen, sino también porque muchas lo ignoran, pues el acto del pensamiento, por el cual uno cree una cosa, es diferente de aquel otro por el cual uno conoce que la cree, y por lo tanto muchas veces se encuentra aquél sin éste.

The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, and which they revealed to us none but their best thoughts

Son olarak yanl?? veya düzmece öÄŸretilere gelince, ne bir simyac?n?n verdiÄŸi sözler, ne bir astroloÄŸun kehanetleri, ne bir sihirbaz?n düzenbazl?klar?, ne de bildiklerinden fazlas?n? bilir görünmeyi meslek edinmiÅŸlerin hileleri ve övüngenlikleri taraf?ndan art?k aldat?lamayacak kadar bunlar?n deÄŸerinin ne olduÄŸunu zaten yeterince bildiÄŸimi düÅŸünüyordum.

I did not imitate the skeptics who doubt only for doubting's sake, and pretend to be always undecided; on the contrary, my whole intention was to arrive at a certainty, and to dig away the drift and the sand until I reached the rock or the clay beneath.

There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.

Et pour nous, en voyant des choses dans lesquelles, selon certains sens, nous ne remarquons point de limites, nous n'assurerons pas pour cela qu'elles soient infinies, mais nous les estimerons seulement indéfinies

Descartes busca reglas fijas para descubrir verdades, no para defender tesis o exponer teorías.

Leer buenos libros es como conversar con las mejores mentes del pasado.

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.

Children and geniuses know that there is no bridge, only the water that lets itself be crossed.

We are being torn apart between the avidity for knowing and the despair of having known. The goad will not renounce its sting and we our hope.

Les mots qui vont surgir savent de nous ce que nous ignorons d'eux.

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

Everything is self-evident.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries.

Les représentations théâtrales, elles aussi, sont enracinées dans la violence collective et ce sont des espèces de rites, mais plus nettoyés encore de leur violence que les sacrifices animaux, et plus riches sur le rapport culturel, puisque ce sont toujours, au moins indirectement, des méditations sur l'origine du religieux et de la culture tout entière, des sources potentielles de savoir.

If the Gospels were mythical themselves, they could not provide the knowledge that demythologizes mythology.

The profane sciences of which the modern world is so proud are really and truly only the degenerate 'residues' of the ancient traditional sciences.

Modern man, instead of attempting to raise himself to truth, seeks to drag truth down to his own level.

Let us add that nature is given its full significance only if it is looked at as offering us a means of rising up to the knowledge of divine truths, which is precisely the essential function which we have recognized in symbolism.

Et c'est là, en même temps, ce qui donne l'illusion du progrès à ceux qui, ne connaissant qu'une civilisation, voient exclusivement la direction dans laquelle elle se développe, croient qu'elle est la seule possible, et ne se rendent pas compte que ce développement sur un point peut être largement compensé par une régression sur d'autres points.