Philosopher Quotes

Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively.
We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.
What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy.
When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical.
You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well.
Any necessary truth, whether a priori or a posteriori, could not have turned out otherwise.
For a sensation to be felt as pain is for it to be pain.
It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong.
Proper names are rigid designators.
Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.
Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.
Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.
I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature.
Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.
Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.
Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure.
Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.
To silence criticism is to silence freedom.
Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant.
Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.
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