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