Philosophy Quotes
Questions about meaning, existence, and truth from thinkers who spent their lives searching for answers.
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"Logic is the study of the conditions of representations."Peirce, Charles Sanders
"To be completely rational is to be open to all possibilities."Peirce, Charles Sanders
"We live in a universe of relationships and connections."Peirce, Charles Sanders
"Reason must be grounded in experience."Peirce, Charles Sanders
"The universe speaks in the language of signs."Peirce, Charles Sanders
"All things are connected through webs of meaning."Peirce, Charles Sanders
"All experience is mediated by signs and symbols."Peirce, Charles Sanders
"The human sciences deal with the facts of consciousness, with representations, feelings, and volitions."Dilthey, Wilhelm
"The unity of consciousness is the foundation of human understanding."Dilthey, Wilhelm
"We interpret the world through categories shaped by our culture."Dilthey, Wilhelm
"The inner life of the mind transcends purely mechanical explanation."Dilthey, Wilhelm
"The development of consciousness is the true history of humanity."Dilthey, Wilhelm
"Each person is both shaped by their age and capable of transcending it."Dilthey, Wilhelm
"The task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God."Feuerbach, Ludwig
"The divine being is actually nothing other than the human being, or rather, human nature raised and extended; it is the human being freed from the limits of individuality."Feuerbach, Ludwig
"Philosophy must take the place of religion."Feuerbach, Ludwig
"The only atheism is that which denies human nature, not that which denies divine nature."Feuerbach, Ludwig
"Materialism has never been better represented than by its greatest opponent."Feuerbach, Ludwig
"The distinction between the divine nature and the human is abolished."Feuerbach, Ludwig
"God was not first, and man second; on the contrary, man was first, and God second."Feuerbach, Ludwig
"The new philosophy has the advantage of being founded on real facts."Feuerbach, Ludwig
"Being is self-evident; only non-being is problematic."Feuerbach, Ludwig
"What man says of God, he is actually saying of himself."Feuerbach, Ludwig
"The individual is not divine; only the species is divine."Feuerbach, Ludwig
"The secret of theology is anthropology."Feuerbach, Ludwig
"The world is my representation."Feuerbach, Ludwig
"The finite yearns for the infinite."Feuerbach, Ludwig
"The universal is contained in the particular."Feuerbach, Ludwig
"Society is the product of human nature."Feuerbach, Ludwig
"The individual exists only through society."Feuerbach, Ludwig