Philosophy Quotes

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

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"To be rational is not to be certain; it is to be honest about doubt."
Lakatos, Imre
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"The authority of tradition must be weighed against the evidence of reason."
Lakatos, Imre
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"A researcher without doubt is not a researcher but a propagandist."
Lakatos, Imre
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"A theory that cannot be disproven is not a theory but a faith."
Lakatos, Imre
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"Every answer is temporary; every solution is provisional."
Lakatos, Imre
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"Thought is constantly creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they were always there."
Bohm, David
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"The ground of all being is undivided wholeness and the flowing movement of this wholeness."
Bohm, David
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"Consciousness is not a product of the brain; it is the fundamental nature of reality."
Bohm, David
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"The separation between mind and matter is a fundamental illusion."
Bohm, David
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"The universe is fundamentally holistic; parts have meaning only in relation to the whole."
Bohm, David
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"Fragmentation in thought leads to fragmentation in action and in society."
Bohm, David
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"Our perception of reality is fundamentally shaped by our internal state."
Bohm, David
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"Consciousness is not confined to the human brain but is woven into the fabric of existence."
Bohm, David
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"To understand the universe, we must understand our own consciousness first."
Bohm, David
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"Our beliefs create the boundaries of what we are able to perceive."
Bohm, David
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"The mind that is divided against itself cannot perceive unity."
Bohm, David
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"The deepest questions cannot be answered; they can only be lived into."
Bohm, David
"Reason itself is a tradition, not a universal principle."
Feyerabend, Paul
"The pursuit of consistency is the death of genuine thought."
Feyerabend, Paul
"We do not discover the world; we invent ourselves within it."
Feyerabend, Paul
"Logic is a tool, not a law; it can be applied or abandoned as context demands."
Feyerabend, Paul
"The pursuit of unified theory is a symptom of philosophical immaturity."
Feyerabend, Paul
"Pluralism is not relativism; it is the recognition of genuine diversity."
Feyerabend, Paul
"We mistake order for truth and miss the creative chaos beneath the surface."
Feyerabend, Paul
"What counts as reasonable depends on what has become habitual."
Feyerabend, Paul
"Every system contains within itself the materials of its own critique."
Feyerabend, Paul
"Every framework for understanding is also a framework for not understanding."
Feyerabend, Paul
"Orthodoxy is the graveyard of thought masquerading as its cathedral."
Feyerabend, Paul
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"The paradoxes only show that something is wrong with the way we are describing things."
Bell, John Stewart
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"The universe does not care about your intuitions - it behaves as it does."
Bell, John Stewart