Philosophy Quote by Charles Darwin

“Origin of man now proved.—Metaphysics must flourish.—He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.”

— Charles Darwin

He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.

— Charles Darwin

He who understands baboons would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.

— Charles Darwin

“The biggest question, transcending physics and the realm of how he was able to do the extraordinary things he did, remained firmly rooted in…

— Sol Luckman

“The man who is ready to prove that metaphysical knowledge is wholly impossible has no right here to any answer. He must be referred…

— F.H. Bradley

“His lack of reverence for authority and his willingness to challenge received wisdom would lead him to craft an empirical approach for understanding nature…

— Walter Isaacson

From this bestial view that the human mind consists of only sense certainty, pleasure and pain, Locke developed an equally bestial theory of the…

— Robert Trout

“A great physicist is always a metaphysicist as well; he has a higher concept of his knowledge and his task.”

— Ernst Jünger

“He developed his revolutionary philosophy, with its grounding not in the Bible or ancient writers but in human reason, and became famous and infamous…

— Russell Shorto

“Consequently he himself perceived that a knowledge of mankind would have availed him more than all the legal refinements and philosophical maxims in the…

— Nikolai Gogol

“Yet, as has been said of him before, no theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself.…

— Oscar Wilde

“I felt convinced that however it might have been in former times, in the present stage of the world, no man's faculties could be…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley