Philosophy Quotes

"We can never fully step outside our situation, but we can become increasingly conscious of it."

"In the depth of reflection, we discover that consciousness is not a private realm but a participation in universal structures."

"There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism."

"The work of the past on the present is more important than the work of the present on the past."

"The authenticity of a tradition depends on its being transmitted as something inert."

"Every act of thinking contains within it an element of violence against previous thinking."

"Thinking means going to the utmost limit of what is possible."

"A revolutionary thinker is not one who thinks revolutionary thoughts, but one who thinks thoughts that are fundamentally opposed to the given world."

"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide."

"Eternity is not infinite time but the deepest present moment."

"Nothing exists except in so far as it is perceived."

"There is no such thing as an isolated action or event; everything is connected."

"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."

"Every person is a universe in themselves."

"There is no such thing as an unmotivated observer."

"The world is not made of facts and laws alone."

"We are all prisoners of our perspective."

"What we believe shapes what we see."

"Linguistic meaning is indeterminate; translation between languages is fundamentally underdetermined."

"To be is to be the value of a variable."

"Ontological relativity means that what objects exist is relative to a scheme of reference."

"Objects are posits that we accept for convenience in systematizing experience."

"Logical positivism failed because the principle of verification is itself unverifiable."

"The analytic-synthetic distinction collapses under scrutiny; all beliefs are revisable."

"Meaning is what survives translation, not what is lost in it."

"Sets are abstract entities we postulate to organize our thoughts systematically."

"Quantification reveals the true commitments of a theory."

"The rabbit is not extracted from the rabbit-stage in the sensory manifold."

"Epistemology stands or falls with ontology; we cannot separate them."

"The physical world exists independently, but our knowledge of it is forever mediated."