As so often happens in philosophy, clever people accept a false general principle on a priori grounds and then devote endless labour and ingenuity to explaining away plain facts which obviously conflict with it. — C. D. Broad Copy Share Image
...By a 'silly' theory I mean one which may be held at the time when one is talking or writing professionally, but which only an inmate of a lunatic asylum would think of carrying into daily life. ... It must… — C. D. Broad Copy Share Image
It is worth remembering (though there is nothing that we can do about it) that the world as it really is may easily be… — C. D. Broad Copy Share Image
... a curious superstition. This is the belief that, if there be introspection at all, it must give exhaustive and infallible information. — C. D. Broad Copy Share Image
As so often happens in philosophy, clever people accept a false general principle on a priori grounds and then devote endless labour and ingenuity… — C. D. Broad Copy Share Image
A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to hunger and thirst after it is… — C. D. Broad Copy Share Image
...By a 'silly' theory I mean one which may be held at the time when one is talking or writing professionally, but which only… — C. D. Broad Copy Share Image
I shall no doubt be blamed by certain scientists, and, I am afraid, by some philosophers, for having taken serious account of the alleged… — C. D. Broad Copy Share Image
Telepathy, both simultaneous and precognitive, is now an experimentally established fact. — C. D. Broad Copy Share Image
Now I do not myself share that superstitious reverence for the beliefs of common sense which many contemporary philosophers profess. But I think that… — C. D. Broad Copy Share Image
