Epistemology Quotes

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In mysticism, knowledge cannot be separated from a certain way of life which becomes its living mani...

We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. ...

Certainly, what Kant calls the transcendental reference, experience and object of experience are in ...

The third preliminary problem for every theory of reality is that of the experience of transcendence...

It is very important to note that the transcendence of the object is by no means a primitive compone...

What is gained by the transcendence of the object is the identifiability of the object in a pluralit...

Only after the concept of knowledge has been based on an ontological relation [*Seinsverhältnis*] ca...

We must reject entirely the frequently encountered assertion that consciousness is a "primal fact," ...

It is precisely because the principle of the transcendence of the object is completely independent o...

This book first arose out of a passage in Borges, out of the laughter that shattered, as I read the ...

Every novel says to the reader: “Things are not as simple as you think.” That is the novel’s eternal...

Every television program must be a complete package in itself. No previous knowledge is to be requir...

I should go so far as to say that embedded in the surrealistic frame of a television news show is a ...

The principle chore of brains is to get the body parts where they should be in order that the organi...

Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and e...

People who have cut their teeth on philosophical problems of rationality, knowledge, perception, fre...

Plato said that we are trapped inside a cave and know the world only through the shadows it casts on...

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

Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.

Why should things be easy to understand?

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what come...

Logic is the science not of external forms of thought, but of the laws of development "of all materi...

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

It is within science itself, and not in some prior philosophy, that reality is to be identified and ...

How does it happen that a properly endowed natural scientist comes to concern himself with epistemol...

In consequence of the inevitably scattered and fragmentary nature of our thinking, which has been me...

The most perfect and satisfactory knowledge is that of perception but this is limited to the absolut...

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental ...

Falsity consists in the privation of knowledge, which inadequate, fragmentary, or confused ideas inv...

The order and connection of ideas in the same as the order and connection of things

He who has a true idea simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth o...

I do not think there is a demonstrative proof (like Euclid) of Christianity, nor of the existence of...

Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition.

How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than w...

But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has bee...

We’re starting to behave as if we’ve reached the end of human knowledge. And while that notion is un...

I’m saying there is evil in the world,” Master Kit said, hefting the box on his hip, “and doubt is t...

Explanation is where the mind rests.

A great truth wants to be criticized not idolized

Time is different for a tree than for a man. Sun and soil and water, these are the things a weirwood...

Pure analysis puts at our disposal a multitude of procedures whose infallibility it guarantees; it o...

It must be *possible* for the *I think* to accompany all my representations: for otherwise something...

A similar experiment may be tried in metaphysics as regards the *intuition* of objects. If the intui...

Metaphysics, a completely isolated and speculative branch of rational knowledge which is raised abov...

It is true, no doubt, that this principle of the necessary unity of apperception is itself an identi...

We have seen, therefore, that I am not allowed even to *assume*, for the sake of the necessary pract...

But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of ...

Our critique is not opposed to the *dogmatic procedure* of reason in its pure knowledge as science (...

The purpose of this critique of pure speculative reason consists in the attempt to change the old pr...

Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of our mind; the first is to receive representati...

It will be seen how there can be the idea of a special science, the *critique of pure reason* as it ...

He who would know the world must first manufacture it.

Science is often misrepresented as ‘the body of knowledge acquired by performing replicated controll...

He was pinched perspinngly in the epistemological dilemma of the skeptic, unable to accept solutions...

One of the advantages of science is that one's work, ultimately, is either replicated or it is not.