"Every given reality implies the thought which apprehends it. Therefore being is the condition of knowing; knowing is not the condition of being."

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“The scientific sterility of the Middle Ages has to be condemned for the same reasons which make it necessary today to condemn the philosophic sterility of scientism.”

“With Descartes the Cogito ergo sum turns into Cogito ergo res sunt .”

“As used today, the word realism means in the first place the opposite to idealism when it claims that it is possible to pass from the subject to the object.”

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“Hume's skepticism, therefore, descends in a direct line from Cartesian mathematicism.”

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