Philosophy Quotes
Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.
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"Concepts are not mental contents but abstract entities."Frege, Gottlob
"The laws of thought are the laws of being itself."Frege, Gottlob
"Concepts form a structured hierarchy of subordination."Frege, Gottlob
"Every judgment asserts a relation between thoughts and truth."Frege, Gottlob
"The structure of thought is isomorphic to the structure of reality."Frege, Gottlob
"Thoughts are the primary bearers of truth and falsehood."Frege, Gottlob
"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility; that it is comprehensible is a miracle."Weyl, Hermann
"What can be more important than the laws by which we live and think?"Weyl, Hermann
"The structure of nature reveals an elegance and economy that points to something beyond mere chance."Weyl, Hermann
"I found that there were about 600 or so lot of people who were by definition only people who were trying to figure things out."Church, Alonzo
"I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our role is to discover it, not to invent it."Church, Alonzo
"The task of the philosopher is not to refute errors but to understand them."Church, Alonzo
"The universe is fundamentally mathematical in nature."Church, Alonzo
"The world is understandable through logic and reason."Church, Alonzo
"All things are connected through the language of mathematics."Church, Alonzo
"Reality transcends our limited perceptions."Church, Alonzo
"All truths are connected in the fabric of reality."Church, Alonzo
"Discipline in thought is essential to understanding."Church, Alonzo
"The mind uses its categories to understand the world, but the world itself transcends these categories."Poincaré, Henri
"The universe is indifferent to our suffering, which is precisely why we must create meaning."Poincaré, Henri
"The map is not the territory, though we often confuse the two."Poincaré, Henri
"Philosophy is the art of asking questions that science cannot yet answer."Poincaré, Henri
"The only concrete fact of experience is that something takes place; that there is activity which is productive of effects; and that there is a passage of time."Whitehead, Alfred North
"Every event in the world is determined by how it is prehended, or felt, by other entities."Whitehead, Alfred North
"Speculative philosophy is the endeavor to frame a coherent, logical, necessary system of general ideas."Whitehead, Alfred North
"The world is not composed of things, but of events and processes."Whitehead, Alfred North
"The fundamental error of most philosophy is the attempt to reduce multiplicity to simplicity."Whitehead, Alfred North
"Consciousness is not a thing, but a process of creative integration."Whitehead, Alfred North
"The universe is intelligible to the human mind precisely because mind is part of the universe."Whitehead, Alfred North
"The question 'Can machines think?' I believe is too meaningless to deserve discussion."Turing, Alan