Philosophy Quotes

Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.

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"The environmental movement has often been driven by emotion rather than reason."
James Lovelock
"The greatest environmental problems stem from our attempts to maximize short-term gains."
James Lovelock
"We need to move beyond the idea that humans are the center of the universe."
James Lovelock
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"What we call free will may simply be unconditioned responses."
Ivan Pavlov
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"The mind obeys the same laws as matter and motion."
Ivan Pavlov
I
"In every action, we find the physics of the mind."
Ivan Pavlov
I
"The mind is not separate from the body; it is the body thinking."
Ivan Pavlov
I
"What we call consciousness is the sum of our conditioned responses."
Ivan Pavlov
I
"The nervous system is democracy in action—all parts influence the whole."
Ivan Pavlov
I
"The mind follows the same rules as falling objects; it obeys laws."
Ivan Pavlov
I
"Conditioning is not reduction; it is clarification of life's processes."
Ivan Pavlov
I
"The mind is the body's way of understanding itself."
Ivan Pavlov
"Punishment may suppress behavior temporarily, but it does not change the underlying motivation."
B.F. Skinner
"The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior in similar circumstances."
B.F. Skinner
"Culture is simply the sum of our reinforced behaviors."
B.F. Skinner
C
"We cannot live only on what we are given. We must reflect on who we truly are."
Carl Jung
C
"The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution, born anew in the brain structure of every individual."
Carl Jung
C
"Nothing can have value without being an object of utility, but beyond that utilitarianism, there is something spiritual."
Carl Jung
C
"There is no psychology without the psyche, and the psyche is not merely a mechanism but a living reality."
Carl Jung
C
"The creation of consciousness is the highest calling of human existence."
Carl Jung
C
"Synchronicity reveals the acausal connections that bind the psyche and the external world."
Carl Jung
C
"The number four has special significance as the symbol of completeness and wholeness."
Carl Jung
C
"Spirit and matter are not enemies but partners in the dance of creation."
Carl Jung
C
"What we call evil is often the good stripped of meaning or context."
Carl Jung
C
"The psyche is fundamentally amphibious; it lives in both the realm of matter and spirit."
Carl Jung
C
"No psychic phenomenon can be understood or treated when separated from its meaning."
Carl Jung
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"We live in the world we create through our distinctions."
Humberto Maturana
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"We are the observers of the world we observe."
Humberto Maturana
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"The observer is inseparable from observation."
Humberto Maturana
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"Language generates reality; reality does not generate language."
Humberto Maturana