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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
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
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
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
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
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
A priori Logical propositions are such as can be known a priori without study of the actual world. — Bertrand Russell
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
God is the great comprehensive a priori integrity of Universe within which human beings find themselves to be operating. — R. Buckminster Fuller
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
History is a priori amoral; it has no conscience. — Arthur Koestler
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I don't believe in empirical science. I only believe in a priori truth. — Kurt GÃ¶del
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
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
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
No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition. — Albert Camus
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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