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- The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes a higher plane…
- Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled.
- How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the…
- I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgement in all human affairs.
- The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no room left by…
- For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions.
- With all my heart I believe that the world's present system of sovereign nations can only lead to barbarism, war and inhumanity, and that only…
- All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere…
- Marie Curie is, of all celebrated beings, the only one whom fame has not corrupted.
- If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.
- I once thought that if I could ask God one question, I would ask how the universe began, because once I knew that, all the…
- [There is] a duty in refusing to cooperate in any undertaking that violates the Constitutional rights of the individual. This holds in particular for all…
- What can the schools do to defend democracy? Should they preach a specific political doctrine? I believe they should not. If they are able to…
- Belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science.
- ...behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable.
- I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express in words afterwards.
- Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But there is no doubt in my mind that the lion belongs with it even if…
- To have security against atomic bombs and against the other biological weapons, we have to prevent war, for if we cannot prevent war every nation…
- Of what significance is one's existence, one is basically unaware. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life?…
- Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide