Quote by C.S. Lewis

“Hume saw clearly that certain concepts, for example that of causality, cannot be deduced from our perceptions of experience by logical methods,” Einstein noted.…

— Walter Isaacson

“Wither knew that everything was lost. It is incredible how little this knowledge moved him. What had been in his far-off youth a merely…

— C.S. Lewis

“My criticism of Hegel procedure is that when in his discussion he arrives at a contradiction, he construes it as a crisis in the…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“I have always considered David Hume as approaching as nearly the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man as perhaps the nature of…

— Adam Smith

“He turned to appease the fierce longings of his heart before which everything else was idle and alien. He cared little that he was…

— James Joyce

“The time has passed when he was an object of ridicule, and it is no longer a mark of eccentricity to defend or of…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“He had come to that moment in his age when there occurred to him, with increasing intensity, a question of such overwhelming simplicity that…

— John Williams

“Should you ever intend to dull the wits of a young man and to incapacitate his brains for any kind of thought whatever, then…

— Karl R. Popper

“Never to the end of his life could he understand goodness, beauty, or truth, or the significance of his actions which were too contrary…

— Leo Tolstoy

“There was a certain graceful ease and freedom about all he said and did, that gave a sense of repose and expansion to the…

— Anne Brontë

“The product of causes ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental…

— Bertrand Russell

“He seemed to be drawing inward toward some point at which he would be reduced to the fundamental essence of himself.”

— William Gay