Brevity Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

“A whole lot of us go through life assuming that we are basically right, basically all the time, about basically everything: about our political…

— Kathryn Schulz

In taking the everyday details of life for granted, we fail to appreciate the extraordinary fact that we are conscious at all.

— Stephen Batchelor

Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many…

— Bertrand Russell

“Humanity's "progress of knowledge" and the "evolution of consciousness" have too often been characterized as if our task were simply to ascend a very…

— Richard Tarnas

The dispassionate intellect, the open mind, the unprejudiced observer, exist in an exact sense only in a sort of intellectualist folk-lore; states even approaching…

— Wilfred Trotter

Few people have definitely articulated philosophies of their own. But almost everyone has his own peculiar sense of a certain total character in the…

— William James

Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.

— Leo Tolstoy

The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.

— Sophie Swetchine

Let us, then, take our compass; we are something, and we are not everything. The nature of our existence hides from us the knowledge…

— Blaise Pascal

It is only with total humility, and in absolute stillness of mind that we can know what indeed we are.

— Wei Wu Wei

“In a complex world where people can be atypical in an infinite number of ways, there is great value in discovering the baseline. And…

— Steven D. Levitt

If you are not thinking universally and intellectually, you can only remain flawlessly stagnant

— Lionel Suggs