Philosophy Quotes

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

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"The distinction between subject and object is drawn within a conceptual scheme."
Sellars, Wilfrid
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"The family resemblance among uses of a word need not reflect a common essence."
Sellars, Wilfrid
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"Consciousness is not a private theater but a public capacity."
Sellars, Wilfrid
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"The normativity of thought is grounded in linguistic practice."
Sellars, Wilfrid
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"Our concepts carve nature at its joints only relative to human interests."
Sellars, Wilfrid
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"The space of reasons is not a mysterious realm but the ordinary space of justification."
Sellars, Wilfrid
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"Language is not representation but a form of life."
Sellars, Wilfrid
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"The task of philosophy is to make the implicit explicit."
Sellars, Wilfrid
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"I suspect that what we call the real world is incorrigible only with reference to some particular conceptual framework"
Bell, John Stewart
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"It may well be, however, that this is because I lived in a peculiar epoch and in peculiar circumstances"
Bell, John Stewart
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"The universe does not care what you think of it"
Bell, John Stewart
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"The question of what is real is a question for philosophers as much as physicists"
Bell, John Stewart
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"Science without philosophy is empty; philosophy without science is blind"
Bell, John Stewart
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"The universe does not owe us an explanation, but we may demand one"
Bell, John Stewart
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"We must embrace the idea that multiple realities coexist simultaneously."
Everett, Hugh
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"We are all versions of ourselves existing across infinite branches."
Everett, Hugh
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"Our actions resonate across multiple versions of reality."
Everett, Hugh
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"Determinism and free will are reconciled in the many-worlds framework."
Everett, Hugh
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"Accept the branching nature of reality and transcend uncertainty."
Everett, Hugh
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"We are all living out infinite variations of our lives simultaneously."
Everett, Hugh
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"In the many-worlds framework, free will and determinism coexist harmoniously."
Everett, Hugh
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"We exist simultaneously across infinite branches of possibility."
Everett, Hugh
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"In the many-worlds interpretation, everything that can happen does happen."
Everett, Hugh
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"Quantum mechanics demonstrates that existence transcends our singular perspective completely."
Everett, Hugh
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"Rational thinking is not about certainty; it is about the best available evidence at any given moment."
Lakatos, Imre
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"The mind that believes itself infallible is the most dangerous mind of all."
Lakatos, Imre
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"Philosophy without criticism is dogma; science without criticism is mythology."
Lakatos, Imre
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"To understand science, we must understand the psychology of those who create it."
Lakatos, Imre
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"The most dangerous moment in science is when everyone agrees."
Lakatos, Imre
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"The best theories are those that invite the most rigorous attack."
Lakatos, Imre