Philosophy Quote by Jostein Gaarder

“We can be sure, he [Kant] says, that anything we shall ever experience must show the characteristics affirmed of it in our a priori…

— Bertrand Russell

“He that knoweth not what the world is, knoweth not where he himself is. And he that knoweth not what the world was made…

— Marcus Aurelius

“Only when we accept the fact that the world is never exactly as we see it through our individual lens of perception will we…

— Hal Zina Bennett

“As we cannot be universal by knowing everything there is to know about everything, we must know a little about everything, because it is…

— Blaise Pascal

“Everything, for us, is in our concept of the world. To modify our concept of the world is to modify the world for us,…

— Fernando Pessoa

“I find that all people are fundamentally alike. We are one human family. Perhaps we have different clothes, our skin is of a different…

— Colleen Houck

The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“Kant conceives of the mind as actively organizing experience, which entails a new aspect of reality—phenomena—and a new conception of truth—intersubjective “agreement,” that is,…

— Lee Braver

This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Anything we must assume in order to function in the world is part of general revelation. The undeniable facts of experience reflect the created…

— Nancy Pearcey

“In my freshman and sophomore years of college, I read dozens of books by the great thinkers of Western civilization. From Plato to Nietzsche,…

— Stefanie Weisman

“For a long time I have been fascinated by the idea that the world, as I experience it, only exists in my mind. It…

— James Souze