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Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
Leonardo da Vinci
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And precisely in these latter cognitions, which go beyond the world of the senses, where experience can give neither guidance nor correc tion, lie the investigations of our reason that we hold to be far more preeminent in their importance and sublime in their final aim than everything that the understanding can learn in the field of appearances, and on which we would rather venture everything, even at the risk of erring, than give up such important investigations because of any sort of reservation or from contempt and indifference.
The Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant
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Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.
Karl Popper
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Experience is no doubt the first product of our understanding, while employed in fashioning the raw material of our sensations. It is therefore our first instruction, and
in its progress so rich in new lessons that the chain of all future generations will never be in want of new information that may be gathered on that field. Nevertheless, experience is by no means the only field to which our understanding can be confined. Experience tells us what is, but not that it must be necessarily as it is, and not otherwise. It therefore never gives us any really general truths, and our reason, which is particularly anxious for that class of knowledge, is roused by it rather than satisfied. General truths, which at the same time bear the character of an inward necessity, must be independent of experience, clear and certain by themselves. They are therefore called knowledge a priori while what is simply taken from experience is said to be, in ordinary parlance, known a posteriori or empirically only.
The Critique of Pure Reason, Introduction
Immanuel Kant
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Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
Baruch Spinoza
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In whatever way and through whatever means a cognition may relate to objects, that through which it relates immediately to them, and at which all thought as a means is directed as an end, is intuition.
This, however, takes place only insofar as the object is given to us; but this, in turn, is possible only if it affects the mind in a certain way. The capacity (receptivity) to acquire representations through the way in which we are affected by objects, which is called sensibility. Objects are therefore given to us by means of sensibility, and it alone affords us intuitions; but they are thought through the understanding, and from it arise concepts. But all thought, whether straightaway (directe) or through a detour (indirecte), must ultimately be related to intuitions, thus, in our
case, to sensibility, since there is no other way in which objects can be
given to us.
The critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant
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If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.
Martin Heidegger
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If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman ... because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French.
Montesquieu (1689–1755)
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When the thing we refer to as mind, is in conditioned and confused self referentiality, no surprising, we take our experiences personally and consider ourselves to be imperfect which then results in worrying mind.
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To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.
Stephen Hawking
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We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.
Stephen Hawking
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Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.
Stephen Hawking
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In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.
Stephen Hawking
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A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
Albert Camus
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Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.
Albert Camus
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Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.
Edward de Bono
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But what says still more is this, that certain cognitions even abandon the field of all possible experiences, and seem to expand the domain of our judgments beyond all bounds of experience through concepts to which no corresponding object at all can be given in expenence.
The Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant
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The idea of transcendental philosophy
Now, what is especially remarkable is that even among our experiences, cognitions are mixed in that must have their origin a priori and that perhaps serve only to establish connection among our representations of the senses. For if one removes from our experiences everything that belongs to the senses, there still remain certain original concepts and the judgments generated from them, which must have arisen entirely a priori, independently of experience, because they make one able to say more about the objects that appear to the senses than mere experience would teach, or at least make one believe that one can say this, and make assertions contain true universality and strict necessity, the likes of which merely empirical cognition can never afford.
The Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant
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Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Human reason has the peculiar fate in one species of its cognitions that it is burdened with questions which it cannot dismiss, since they are given to it as problems by the nature of reason itself, but which it also cannot answer, since they transcend every capacity" of human reason. Reason falls into this perplexity through no fault of its own. It begins from principles whose use is unavoidable in the course of experience and at the same time sufficiently warranted by it. With these principles it rises (as its nature also requires) ever higher, to more remote conditions. But since it becomes aware in this way that its business must always remain incomplete because the questions never cease, reason sees itself necessitated to take refuge in principles that overstep all possible use in experience, and yet seem so unsuspicious that even ordinary common sense agrees with them. But it thereby falls into obscurity and contradictions, from which it can indeed surmise that it must somewhere be proceeding on the ground of hidden errors; but it cannot discover them, for the principles on which it is proceeding, since they surpass the bounds of all experience, no longer recognize any touchstone of experience. The battlefield of these endless controversies is called metaphysics.
Preface
The Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant
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Peace is not an absence of war. It is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Baruch Spinoza
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Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.
Eckhart Tolle
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?
Stephen Hawking
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In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.
Stephen Hawking
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The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.
Stephen Hawking
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Imaginary time is a new dimension, at right angles to ordinary, real time.
Stephen Hawking
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How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Albert Camus
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The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
Albert Camus
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All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.
Albert Camus
