Best Priori Quotes
51 Priori quotes by 41 unique authors
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I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason,…
— Gottfried Leibniz
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The term "self" seems a suitable one for the unconscious substrate whose actual exponent in consciousness is the ego. The ego stands to the self…
— Carl Jung
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In the first place a philosophical proposition must be general. It must not deal specially with things on the surface of the earth, or within…
— Bertrand Russell
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I can see no justification whatever for the attitude which refuses on purely a priori grounds to accept action at a distance ... Such an…
— Percy Williams Bridgman
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I can be an artist a posteriori, not a priori. If my pictures tell the story, our story, human story, then in a hundred years,…
— Sebastiao Salgado
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If human life is in fact ordered by a beneficent being whose knowledge of our real needs and of the way in which they can…
— C.S. Lewis
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A priori Logical propositions are such as can be known a priori without study of the actual world.
— Bertrand Russell
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We come now to the question: what is a priori certain or necessary, respectively in geometry (doctrine of space) or its foundations? Formerly we thought…
— Albert Einstein
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God is the great comprehensive a priori integrity of Universe within which human beings find themselves to be operating.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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The downside of skepticism: it can easily turn into an arrogant position of a priori rejection of any new phenomenon or idea, a position that…
— Massimo Pigliucci
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History is a priori amoral; it has no conscience.
— Arthur Koestler
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In attempting to explain geological phenomena, the bias has always been on the wrong side; there has always been a disposition to reason á priori…
— Charles Lyell
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Yes, gentlemen, give me the map of any country, its configuration, its climate, its waters, its winds, and the whole of its physical geography; give…
— Victor Cousin
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It was Darwin's chief contribution, not only to Biology but to the whole of natural science, to have brought to light a process by which…
— Ronald Fisher
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In fact the a priori reasoning is so entirely satisfactory to me that if the facts won't fit in, why so much the worse for…
— Erasmus Darwin
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People wonder why there seems to be no meaning in life. Meaning does not exist a priori. There is no meaning existing in life; one…
— Rajneesh
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We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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I don't believe in empirical science. I only believe in a priori truth.
— Kurt Gödel
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The true function of logic ... as applied to matters of experience ... is analytic rather than constructive; taken a priori, it shows the possibility…
— Bertrand Russell
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Let me simply state that it is wrong to regard any other human being, a priori, as an object, or an 'It.' This is so…
— M. Scott Peck
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given the nature of the human couple, the love of a man and a woman is a priori inferior to that which can exist (at…
— Milan Kundera
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No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.
— Albert Camus
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Evolution advances, not by a priori design, but by the selection of what works best out of whatever choices offer. We are the products of…
— George Wald
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