Philosophy Quotes

"Mysticism is not how the world is, but that it is."

"There is no such thing as the subject that thinks or entertains ideas."

"The proposition is a measure of reality."

"A man is a microcosm, a little world."

"A picture is laid against reality like a ruler."

"Everything we do in philosophy must be reviewed for its practical consequences."

"The limits of language define the limits of the self."

"The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit."

"A man cannot consistently hold that every fact in the universe is regulated by rational law and yet that there is no rational law governing his own thought."

"A person is but a symbol. Just as a word is a symbol of an object, a person represents something beyond himself."

"Nothing is ever completely defined."

"Man is a sign."

"There is no element of man's consciousness which has not something corresponding to it in the world."

"A person is not absolutely an individual. His thought is what he is thinking at that moment."

"The elements of every concept enter into logical thought at a level quite below consciousness."

"Every symbol is determined by its object, either directly or indirectly."

"The universe is a vast symbolic medium."

"The riddle of the universe is the object of philosophy and of every serious mind."

"A person is nothing else than a sign."

"The true meaning of a sign is the effect which it has on the understanding of those who perceive it."

"Every person is a sign."

"A sign is something which stands to somebody for something in some respect or capacity."

"There is no thought without signs."

"The third grade of clearness is attained only by the practice of philosophy."

"The mind is not a warehouse of fixed ideas but a dynamic process."

"Philosophy is the science that tries to answer the riddle of the universe."

"The universe is the totality of all significant signs."

"A person thinks of himself as having various characters."

"All things present themselves as signs through the mind."

"Thought is entirely relative to its expression."