Philosophy Quotes

"Man is a historical being; his nature is constituted by his historical development."

"The study of human expression reveals the depths of human consciousness."

"The human being is fundamentally a creature of meaning-making; we cannot live without interpretation."

"Philosophy is the science of sciences; it examines the foundations on which all knowledge rests."

"The mind thinks in signs, and signs are triadic in nature."

"Meditation upon symbols is the business of a genuine thinker."

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

"The universe appears to be composed of ideas."

"In thinking we use the whole mind, not merely its intellectual capacities."

"The law of love is supreme in metaphysics."

"The universe is composed of signs and nothing but signs."

"A question which cannot be answered by any conceivable observation is metaphysical."

"A sign is in a conjoint relation to the thing denoted and to the mind addressed."

"The pragmatic maxim is only an application of the sole principle of logic."

"The real world is nothing but the world as it affects us."

"Every event in the world entails a fact about every other event."

"We are thinking animals, not thinking machines."

"Language is the house of being, and we dwell within it as thinking beings."

"The nothing nothings, and in this nothinging it reveals itself."

"Being is not a genus of beings; yet it concerns every being."

"The task of thinking is to respond to what being itself reveals."

"Being withdraws even as it reveals itself to us."

"The question of being is the most universal and deepest of questions."

"Being is not an object but the condition of all objects."

"The nothing is not merely the negation of beings."

"The question 'What is being?' drives all genuine inquiry."

"Being reveals itself as both presence and absence."

"Language is the memory of being preserved in speech."

"Only the saved can save; only those who question can think."

"Being is the horizon against which all understanding occurs."