Philosophy Quotes

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

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"Belief justified is the only belief worthy of the name knowledge."
Lehrer, Keith
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"Rationality is the committed practice of examining, questioning, and refining our systems of belief."
Lehrer, Keith
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"Philosophy begins with wonder and ends with wisdom."
BonJour, Laurence
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"The unexamined life may be lived, but it is never truly known."
BonJour, Laurence
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"Philosophy teaches us to question the questions we've been given."
BonJour, Laurence
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"We must examine our beliefs as carefully as we examine our actions."
Sosa, Ernest
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"Our beliefs shape our reality more than we typically acknowledge."
Sosa, Ernest
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"The love of wisdom begins with recognizing the limits of what we know."
Sosa, Ernest
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"The internalist tradition wrongly locates justification entirely within the mind."
Sosa, Ernest
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"Our concepts shape how we carve up reality at its joints."
Sosa, Ernest
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"The problem of induction reminds us of the limits of empirical reasoning."
Sosa, Ernest
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"Our theories are underdetermined by evidence, yet some are better than others."
Sosa, Ernest
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"We must hold our deepest commitments lightly enough to examine them critically."
Sosa, Ernest
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"The problem of skepticism teaches us about the structure of justification."
Sosa, Ernest
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"The examined life produces knowledge that transforms understanding."
Sosa, Ernest
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"The pursuit of wisdom is a lifelong endeavor without final arrival."
Sosa, Ernest
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"The love of wisdom begins in wonder and never fully ends."
Sosa, Ernest
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"Testimony is a foundational pillar of human knowledge that philosophers have long underestimated."
Goldman, Alvin
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"The problem of other minds reveals the fundamental limits of human certainty."
Goldman, Alvin
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"Moral knowledge may operate according to different principles than empirical knowledge."
Goldman, Alvin
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"Questions matter as much as answers in the pursuit of understanding."
Goldman, Alvin
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"Language shapes thought in ways we are often unaware of until we examine it closely."
Goldman, Alvin
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"Reason and emotion work together in all meaningful knowledge acquisition."
Goldman, Alvin
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"The pursuit of knowledge is inseparable from the pursuit of virtue."
Goldman, Alvin
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"The questions we fail to ask often matter more than those we pursue."
Goldman, Alvin
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"The limits of language constrain the limits of what we can clearly think."
Goldman, Alvin
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"Standards of rationality themselves evolve with our understanding of the world."
Goldman, Alvin
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"What we value determines what we investigate and how."
Goldman, Alvin
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"The relationship between individual and collective knowledge is deeply reciprocal."
Goldman, Alvin
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"Epistemology is ultimately about how to live as a thinking being."
Goldman, Alvin