Empiricism Quotes

Human intellectual progress, such as it has been, results from our long struggle to see things 'as t...

Empiricism assumes that objects can be understood independendy of observing subjects. Truth is there...

A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and because firm and unalterable experience has esta...

How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is the...

If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.

The empiricist assumes without any evidence or proof that his experiences somehow give him a magical...

It is necessary, first of all, to find a correct logical starting point, one which can lead us to a ...

Such is the strange situation in which modern philosophy finds itself. No former age was ever in suc...

...it would be a very naive sort of dogmatism to assume that there exists an absolute reality of thi...

[At the beginning of modern science], a light dawned on all those who study nature. They comprehende...

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. ...

The four most expensive word in the English language are 'This time it's different.

Praxeology is a theoretical and systematic, not a historical, science. Its scope is human action as ...

The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even be...

Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found ou...

As an empiricist I continue to think of the conceptual scheme of science as a tool, ultimately, for ...

Four Characters in Consciousness—How does it go on? We notice immediately four important characters ...