Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism…

Surely, we are provided with senses as well fitted to penetrate the spaces of the real, the substantial, the eternal, as these outward are…

— Henry David Thoreau

The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase…

— E. O. Wilson

“It is clearly the result, not of carelessness but of matured judgement of our age, which will no longer rest satisfied with the mere…

— Immanuel Kant

“A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and because firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the case against a…

— David Hume

“Objectivity is a subjective fantasy implanted in us by an external will seeking to curtail our creativity by limiting our minds to our own…

— Sol Luckman

“The educated don't get that way by memorizing facts; they get that way by respecting them.”

— Tom Heehler

Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the former.

— David Bentley Hart

“Such is the strange situation in which modern philosophy finds itself. No former age was ever in such a favourable position with regard to…

— Ernst Cassirer

“The theories of the social sciences do not consist of “laws” in the sense of empirical rules about the behavior of objects definable in…

— Friedrich A. von Hayek

Only he who finds empiricism irksome is driven to method.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“There are two kinds of truth in the world, empirical truth and human truth - empirical truth is all about facts, human truth is…

— Abhijit Naskar

“There is an inexplicable sense of relief in being proven wrong, which perhaps can only be realized by either a scientist or a philosopher.”

— Abhijit Naskar

...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.

— Alan Watts

“David Hume, in a moment of acute skepticism, felt panicky in the solitude of his study and had to go out and join his…

— William Barrett

“Empirically, things are poignant, tragic, beautiful, humorous, settled, disturbed, comfortable, annoying, barren, harsh, consoling, splendid, fearful; are such immediately and in their own right…

— John Dewey