Abstraction Quote by Anonymous

Far from being a material world, this is a psychic world, which allows us to make only indirect and hypothetical inferences about the real…

— Carl Jung

There are two worlds we live in: a material world, bound by the laws of physics, and the world inside our mind, which is…

— Alan Moore

...the physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations; for, he himself knows best, and feels more surely…

— Albert Einstein

“Our beliefs shape how we perceive reality to be, and the belief that shapes our current perception of reality was adopted by the worldview…

— Joseph P. Kauffman

The trouble is that the expression 'material thing' is functioning already, from the very beginning, simply as a foil for 'sense-datum'; it is not…

— J. L. Austin

The material world may be nothing but illusion...

— Anodea Judith

The material world is simply an expression of the mind; that's what so many fail to see. We're so dependent on what is before…

— Megan Chance

The belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science. Since, however, sense perception only gives…

— Albert Einstein

The nature of matter, or body considered in general, consists not in its being something which is hard or heavy or coloured, or which…

— Rene Descartes

“physics too is an interpretation of the world and an arrangement of the world, and not an explanation of the world,” and that “we…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.

— Rupert Sheldrake

Materialism is incomplete even as a theory of the physical world, since the physical world includes conscious organisms among its most striking occupants.

— Thomas Nagel