Consistent Quote by Eugene Wigner

Pluralism lets things really exist in the each-form or distributively. Monism thinks that the all-form or collective-unit form is the only form that is…

— William James

Any theory which causes solipsism to seem just as likely an explanation for the phenomena it seeks to describe ought to be held in…

— Anonymous

The sole "property" of matter with whose recognition philosophical materialism is bound up is the property of being an objective reality, of existing outside…

— Vladimir Lenin

It seems to me that philosophers should be more relaxed about whether or not some form of materialism is true.

— Tyler Burge

“The spiritualist or the idealist believes in a spiritual essence of force; spiritual, that is to say phantomatic, inexplicable. The man of materialist science…

— Joseph Dietzgen

The most consistent versions of materialism deny the reality of anything beyond matter - no soul, no spirit, no will, no mind. This is…

— Nancy Pearcey

The principal barrier to a general acceptance of the monist position is that it is counterintuitive.

— Michael Shermer

“Yes, I'm a materialist. I'm willing to be shown wrong, but that has not happened — yet. And I admit that the reason I'm…

— James Randi

Materialism ends up denying the existence of any irreducible subjective qualitative states of sentience or awareness.

— John Searle

Any materialist philosophy must take as its point of departure the existence of a material world that is independent of our minds.

— Manuel De Landa

My fundamental axiom of speculative philosophy is that materialism and spiritualism are opposite poles of the same absurdity-the absurdity of imagining that we know…

— Thomas Huxley

Despite the unrivaled empirical success of quantum theory, the very suggestion that it may be literally true as a description of nature is still…

— David Deutsch