#knowledge

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

Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?

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 Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?

Dec 23,2023

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#quotes #philosophy #knowledge #uncertainty #Bertrand Russell #The Problems of Philosophy #certainty #doubt #skepticism

To try to grasp love intellectually is a way of not suffering, not loving — a practical rival, a stratagem of flight.

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 To try to grasp love intellectually is a way of not suffering, not loving — a practical rival, a stratagem of flight.

Mar 09,2023

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#love #quotes #philosophy #suffering #knowledge #reason #Martha Nussbaum #rationality #intellect #Love’s Knowledge

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

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 The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

Feb 18,2023

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#quotes #philosophy #knowledge #learning #education #Simone Weil #teaching #First and Last Notebooks

If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but he’ll never

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 If a man has his eyes bound, you can encourage him as much as you like to stare through the bandage, but he’ll never

Dec 30,2022

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#quotes #franz kafka #philosophy #knowledge #learning #ignorance #the castle #oppression

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating — people who know absolutely everything, and people who

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 There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating — people who know absolutely everything, and people who

Nov 20,2022

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#quotes #people #oscar wilde #philosophy #knowledge #humanity #the picture of dorian gray

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

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 To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Nov 03,2022

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#quotes #quote #knowledge #ignorance #conscious #Benjamin Disraeli #philosophical

Suppose someone said: ‘What do you believe, Wittgenstein? Are you a sceptic? Do you know whether you will survive death?’

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 Suppose someone said: ‘What do you believe, Wittgenstein? Are you a sceptic? Do you know whether you will survive death?’

Mar 14,2022

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#quotes #philosophy #language #knowledge #Ludwig Wittgenstein #meaning #beliefs #skepticism

We know not through our intellect but through our experience.

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 We know not through our intellect but through our experience.

Mar 11,2022

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#quotes #philosophy #experience #knowledge #intelligence #Maurice Merleau Ponty #Phenomenology of Perception #phenomenology

You have heard of flying with wings, but you have never heard of flying without wings. You have heard of the knowledge

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 You have heard of flying with wings, but you have never heard of flying without wings. You have heard of the knowledge

Feb 12,2022

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#quotes #philosophy #understanding #knowledge #emptiness #zhuangzi #The Complete Works of Zhuangzi #daoism

If intuition is an inner voice – how do I know *how* I am to follow it? And how do I know that it doesn’t mislead me? For if

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 If intuition is an inner voice – how do I know *how* I am to follow it? And how do I know that it doesn’t mislead me? For if

Jan 18,2022

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#quotes #philosophy #truth #knowledge #Ludwig Wittgenstein #Philosophical Investigations #intuition

Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.

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 Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.

Jan 14,2022

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Our own age is essentially one of understanding, and on the average, perhaps, more knowledgeable than any former generation,

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 Our own age is essentially one of understanding, and on the average, perhaps, more knowledgeable than any former generation,

Jan 05,2022

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#quotes #philosophy #søren kierkegaard #understanding #knowledge #emotions #the present age #passions

We in fact understand nothing exactly, but what changes according to the disposition both of the body and of the things

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 We in fact understand nothing exactly, but what changes according to the disposition both of the body and of the things

Dec 11,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #understanding #knowledge #fragments #certainty #limitations #Democritus

Anyone who seriously intends to become a philosopher must ‘once in his life’ withdraw into himself and attempt, within himself,...

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 Anyone who seriously intends to become a philosopher must ‘once in his life’ withdraw into himself and attempt, within himself,...

Dec 09,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #understanding #knowledge #Edmund Husserl #Cartesian Meditations #skepticism

Because the ignorant do not know themselves, they never know for what they are lacking. Some would be sages if they did

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 Because the ignorant do not know themselves, they never know for what they are lacking. Some would be sages if they did

Nov 14,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #awareness #knowledge #ignorance #Baltasar Gracián #The Art of Worldly Wisdom

I do not believe that I am now dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not. I am, however, quite certain that I am having

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 I do not believe that I am now dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not. I am, however, quite certain that I am having

May 19,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #experience #knowledge #perception #epistemology #Bertrand Russell #Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits

My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don’t know anything at all.

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 My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don’t know anything at all.

May 16,2021

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#quotes #oscar wilde #philosophy #understanding #knowledge #ethics #age

We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes.

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 We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes.

Mar 27,2021

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#quotes #henry david thoreau #philosophy #faith #awareness #knowledge #Journals #perception

All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as

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 All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as

Mar 23,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #truth #knowledge #growth #progress #Ralph Waldo Emerson #trust #opinions #instinct #Essays: First Series

Knowledge of the heart must come from the heart — from and in its pains and longings, its emotional responses.

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 Knowledge of the heart must come from the heart — from and in its pains and longings, its emotional responses.

Mar 08,2021

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#love #quotes #Feelings #philosophy #suffering #knowledge #emotions #Martha Nussbaum #desires #Love’s Knowledge

I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again ‘I know that that’s a tree’, pointing to a tree that

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 I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again ‘I know that that’s a tree’, pointing to a tree that

Mar 05,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #knowledge #Ludwig Wittgenstein #philosophers #On Certainty #certainty

Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.

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 Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.

Feb 15,2021

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#quotes #philosophy #knowledge #good #ethics #danger #Michel de Montaigne #Essais #harm

Everyone acknowledges that there are vast amounts we do not know, and that enormous opportunities for progress in

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 Everyone acknowledges that there are vast amounts we do not know, and that enormous opportunities for progress in

Feb 06,2021

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#science #quotes #philosophy #understanding #knowledge #progress #Thomas Nagel #Mind and Cosmos #naturalism #scientism #teleology