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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
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Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another. Sapere aude! 'Have courage to use your own reason!'- that is the motto of enlightenment.
Immanuel Kant
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Self-respect knows no considerations.
Mahatma Gandhi
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Soren Kierkegaard
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world, the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand Russell
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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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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Albert Camus
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He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
Immanuel Kant
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
Michel de Montaigne
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A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
Bertrand Russell
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There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Nietzsche
