Epistemology

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"Is it reasonable to assume a purposiveness in all the parts of nature and to deny it to the whole?"

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Philosophy

Idealism

1770–1831

"It strikes everyone in beginning to form an acquaintance with the treasures of Indian literature, that a land so rich in intellectual products and those of the profoundest order of thought...""

"This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge, keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal, and do well."

"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."

"The life of man in a state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."

"Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."

"Foucault Quotes of the month, at Queensland University of Technology"

"No one in our century has raised the call for philosophy as a rigorous science with such clarity, purity, vigor, and breadth as Husserl."

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🇬🇧Walter Terence Stace

Philosophy

1886–1967

"To suppose that the world aims, as some human beings do, at noble ends, is plainly anthropomorphic. And perhaps the chief ground for refusing to admit purpose in nature is just that there is no evidence of it."

"Alvin Plantinga is arguably the greatest philosopher of the last century."

🇨🇦Patricia Churchland

Philosophy

humanism

b. 1943

"InConversation Radio Interview with Robyn Williams"

"lthough my attempted reconstruction of the view of Whitehead and Russell overcomes, I think, many of the difficulties, it is impossible to regard it as altogether satisfactory."

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🇩🇪Friedrich_Wilhelm_Joseph_Schelling

"Love is the grounding of our existence as humans, and is the basic emotioning in our systemic identity as human beings."

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🇬🇧Francis Bacon (artist)

Philosophy

empiricism

1561–1626

"Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence - tearing away the veils that fact acquires through time."

"To accomplish anything whatsoever one must have standards. None have yet accomplished anything without them."

"Understanding does not occur when we try to intercept what someone wants to say to us by claiming we already know it."

"Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it."

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🇩🇪Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach

Philosophy

Materialism

1804–1872

"I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood."

"While speaking in ideology, and from within ideology we have to outline a discourse which tries to break with ideology, in order to dare to be the beginning of a scientific discourse on ideology."

"The motto of science is not just Pauca but rather Plurima ex paucissimis — the most out of the least."

"The one who contributed most to break down the barrier between physical method and metaphysical method, and to confound their domains, so clearly distinguished in the Aristotelian philosophy, was surely Descartes."

"If you want to argue with me, either you respect me, or hold your tears after I am done with you."

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🇫🇷Julien Offray de La Mettrie

Philosophy

Enlightenment

1709–1751

"Let us... take in our hands the staff of experience... To be blind and to think that one can do without this staff is the worst kind of blindness."

"Abstract terms should be discarded in meditation, and the mind should be fixed on the particular and the concrete, that is, on the things themselves."

"Only the idea of God gives me the confidence that morality will become reality on earth. And because I cannot live without this confidence, I cannot live without God."

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