Philosophy Quotes

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

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"Philosophy of science is indispensable for understanding science itself."
van Fraassen, Bas
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"Constructive empiricism offers resources for thinking clearly about evidence and commitment."
van Fraassen, Bas
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"The principle of relativity, like all principles, requires careful and humble interpretation."
Weyl, Hermann
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"The universe is geometrical at its deepest level."
Weyl, Hermann
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"Perfect objectivity is a delusion; the observer cannot be separated from the observed."
Weyl, Hermann
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"The universe respects mathematical elegance."
Weyl, Hermann
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"The mind is both the observer and the observed."
Weyl, Hermann
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"We are conscious beings in a mathematical universe."
Weyl, Hermann
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"The observer is part of the observed reality."
Weyl, Hermann
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"Mathematics reveals the hidden order of the cosmos."
Weyl, Hermann
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"The study of physics is ultimately the study of reality itself."
Wigner, Eugene
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"The paradoxes we encounter in physics are gateways to deeper understanding."
Wigner, Eugene
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"The relationship between observer and observed is more subtle than we typically assume."
Wigner, Eugene
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"The relationship between theory and reality is the eternal puzzle of physics."
Wigner, Eugene
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"The task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen, but to think what nobody has yet thought about that which everybody sees."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"Consciousness cannot be explained by the physical properties of the brain alone."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"We do not belong to the materialistic school of thought."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"Consciousness is a singularity phasing within and out of the greater void."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"Ethics and aesthetics are one."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"The unity of the conscious mind and the unity of the body is not one and the same thing."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"Mind is not something separate from the physical universe; it is part of it."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"The plurality of the world which we see is something secondary."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"Consciousness seems to come and go as the individual comes into being and passes away."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"Consciousness is not just one of the phenomena of nature; it is the fundamental phenomenon."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"The individual is not a new element inserted into the universe at birth; rather, the physical continuum was his from the beginning of time."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"In an idealistic philosophy, the object of knowledge is an idea."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"The physical world is really abstract; what we call concrete are the mental images."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"Consciousness is connected with the physical world through the brain."
Schrödinger, Erwin
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"We are suspended in the middle of a cosmos of which we know nothing."
Schrödinger, Erwin