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
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"To be completely rational is to be open to all possibilities."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"We live in a universe of relationships and connections."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"Reason must be grounded in experience."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"The universe speaks in the language of signs."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"All things are connected through webs of meaning."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"All experience is mediated by signs and symbols."
Peirce, Charles Sanders
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"The human sciences deal with the facts of consciousness, with representations, feelings, and volitions."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"The unity of consciousness is the foundation of human understanding."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"We interpret the world through categories shaped by our culture."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"The inner life of the mind transcends purely mechanical explanation."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"The development of consciousness is the true history of humanity."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"Each person is both shaped by their age and capable of transcending it."
Dilthey, Wilhelm
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"The task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"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
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"Philosophy must take the place of religion."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"The only atheism is that which denies human nature, not that which denies divine nature."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"Materialism has never been better represented than by its greatest opponent."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"The distinction between the divine nature and the human is abolished."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"God was not first, and man second; on the contrary, man was first, and God second."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"The new philosophy has the advantage of being founded on real facts."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"Being is self-evident; only non-being is problematic."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"What man says of God, he is actually saying of himself."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"The individual is not divine; only the species is divine."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"The secret of theology is anthropology."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"The world is my representation."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"The finite yearns for the infinite."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"The universal is contained in the particular."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"Society is the product of human nature."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"The individual exists only through society."
Feuerbach, Ludwig