Idealism Quote by Frederick C. Beiser

Objectivism is basically the same thing as faith-based science or for that matter faith-based foreign policy, where you start out with the assumption "We…

— W. J. T. Mitchell

The great German idealists from Kant to Hegel saw this idealism or nihilism as a reductio ad absurdum of any philosophy, and so they…

— Frederick C. Beiser

“It will be seen how subjectivism and objectivism, spiritualism and materialism, activity and suffering, only lose their antithetical character, and thus their existence, as…

— Robert C. Tucker

“First, it is a commitment to particularism, to giving priority to the specificity of particulars, not to abstractions and generalities that divert our attention…

— José Medina

Academia is alas full of special interests and specialists who presumed it was possible to "leapfrog" over this or that entire line of development.…

— Kenny Smith

Subjectivity is an ability, the capacity to use a new inner mode of presenting the fact that you currently know something to yourself.

— Thomas Metzinger

The enemy of idealism is zealotry.

— Neil Kinnock

“We cannot embrace radical idealism,”

— Kaiten Nukariya

“Idealism, however impractical, gives a meaning to our existence.”

— Anirban Bose

The subjectivist states his judgements, whereas the objectivist sweeps them under the carpet by calling assumptions knowledge, and he basks in the glorious objectivity…

— I. J. Good

Collectivism, as an intellectual power and a moral ideal, is dead. But freedom and individualism, and their political expression, capitalism, have not yet been…

— Ayn Rand

A vital part of philosophizing is learning to trust one's own intuitivist intelligence, getting one's center of gravity back between one's feet. In our…

— Kenny Smith