Epistemology Quote by Carl Von Clausewitz

“It all comes down to this: Whenever theory supersedes evidence, and prejudice deposes rationalism, there can be no real justice.”

— John E. Douglas

“I have a theory that too much learning unbalances the mind.”

— Iain Pears

“One is not likely to learn much about human beings, by way of psychoanalysis or otherwise, if one adheres unwaveringly to a theory, no…

— Miltiades Zaphiropoulous

“The supreme paradox of all thought is the attempt to discover something that thought cannot think.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

“Everyone had their own theory about everything, and they believed that their truth was the only one that mattered. They spent days, nights, weeks,…

— Paulo Coelho Veronika Decides to Die

“A misleading perception or false belief is increasingly being perpetuated that the unconscious or the intuitive is all that really matters in any spiritual…

— Anthon St. Maarten

“Oh, just some crap about the essential paradox of man: How we refuse to juxtapose the absolute to the relative, and some other some-such…

— Stephen Adly Guirgis

“To hold two ideas that contradict each other is to flirt with absurdity, and humans are creatures who spend their lives trying to convince…

— Albert Camus

“It is a common weakness that when concrete facts do not match up with our preconceived theories, we prefer to keep our theories and…

— Raphael Gasson

“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

The mind forever turns on the lathe of its own contradictions.

— James Lileks

“In the emptiness of the mind, lies wholeness. This wholeness is beyond duality - it is beyond conflicts - it is beyond facts and…

— Abhijit Naskar