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Though there be no such thing as Chance in the world; our ignorance of the real cause of any event has the same influence on

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 Though there be no such thing as Chance in the world; our ignorance of the real cause of any event has the same influence on

Mar 16,2024

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#quotes #philosophy #knowledge #ignorance #uncertainty #Chance #luck #belief #opinions #certainty #David Hume #An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

I do not want to believe it although it is palpable: the great majority of people lack an intellectual conscience… I mean:

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 I do not want to believe it although it is palpable: the great majority of people lack an intellectual conscience… I mean:

Feb 20,2024

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#quotes #philosophy #friedrich nietzsche #choices #reason #rationality #belief #actions #The Gay Science

Faith is the most important factor in religious questions. If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe,

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 Faith is the most important factor in religious questions. If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe,

Nov 27,2021

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A philosophical argument is an attempt to get someone to believe something, whether he wants to believe it or not. A

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 A philosophical argument is an attempt to get someone to believe something, whether he wants to believe it or not. A

Apr 29,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #reason #rationality #belief #Robert Nozick #Philosophical Explanations #normativity

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius.

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 To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius.

Apr 26,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #thought #truth #Ralph Waldo Emerson #belief #genius #universality #Essays: First Series

Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while

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 Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while

Apr 24,2021

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#psychology #quotes #philosophy #humanity #uncertainty #belief #Charles Sanders Peirce #The Essential Peirce #doubt #satisfaction

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is

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 Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is

Jan 19,2021

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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

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 Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

Jan 03,2021

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Rationality is shown not so much in what you believe as in how you believe it. You are rational if you believe it on

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 Rationality is shown not so much in what you believe as in how you believe it. You are rational if you believe it on

Dec 23,2020

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#quotes #philosophy #reason #rationality #belief #justification #Bertrand Russell #Mortals and Others #warrant #evidence #error

There are beliefs — such, for example, as the belief that physical objects exactly resemble our sense-data — which

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 There are beliefs — such, for example, as the belief that physical objects exactly resemble our sense-data — which

Dec 09,2020

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#quotes #philosophy #thinking #reflection #belief #critique #inquiry #Bertrand Russell #The Problems of Philosophy

One could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given

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 One could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given

Nov 04,2020

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