Academic Quote by Desiderius Erasmus

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.

— Desiderius Erasmus

We should be surprised that a matter that generally plays such an important part in the life of man has hitherto been almost entirely…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“No conclusion can be more agreable to scepticism than such as make discoveries concerning the weakness and narrow limites of human reason and capacity”

— David Hume

Philosophers should be, as Seneca put it, 'lawyers for humanity'. Make what you think and feel count; the examined life has global dimensions.

— Martha C. Nussbaum

“study of human nature was in a sorry state. While he had reservations about the ancient philosophers for depending ‘more on Invention than Experience’,…

— David Hume

The history of human opinion is scarcely anything, more than the history of human errors

— Voltaire

My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.

— Steven Pinker

“There is absolutely everything in great fiction but a clear answer. Humanity itself seems to matter more to the novelist than what humanity thinks…

— Eudora Welty

“The philosophers of the past were superficial,” Dr. Pritchett went on. “It remained for our century to redefine the purpose of philosophy. The purpose…

— Ayn Rand

The knowledge that is suited to our situation and powers, the whole compass of moral, natural, and mathematical science, was neglected by the new…

— Edward Gibbon

To make of human affairs a coherent, precise, predictable whole one must ignore or suppress man as he really is. It is by eliminating…

— Eric Hoffer

Humanism . . . is not a single hypothesis or theorem, and it dwells on no new facts. It is rather a slow shifting…

— William James