Quote by Karl Popper Download Open image “[To] interpret Parmenides as a Kant before Kant ... this is exactly what we must do.” — Karl Popper ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
Kant thought things, not because they were true, but because he was Kant. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who could be… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“You know, in the real world, there are people who are not actually Kantians…there are even Utilitarians.” — Dr. Aaron Bunch Copy Share Image
Kant did think he had a moral route back to rational faith in God, for those who need it, and he thought that at… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Kant attempted to work out a view of religion and religious belief according to which existing religions could be brought into harmony with modernity,… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Kant was a rational theologian. He did not pretend to be a biblical or revealed theologian. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Kant did not explain the origin of these judgments but assumed that they were attained by abstraction from the activity of the soul, which… — Ulrich Müller Copy Share Image
“One of Nietzsche’s most frequently repeated assertions is that we are at least partially responsible for the organization of the world, a view he… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
“Maybe even more important than the D.B.P. [Divine Brotherhood of Pythagoras], ∞-wise is the protomystic Parmenides of Elea (c.515-? BCE), not only because of his distinction between the 'Way of Truth' and 'Way of Seeing' framed the terms of Greek metaphysics and (again) influenced Plato, but because Parmenides' #1 student and defender was the aforementioned Zeno, the most fiendishly clever… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share
Science is not a system of certain, or -established, statements; nor is it a system which steadily advances towards a state of finality... And our guesses are guided by the unscientific, the metaphysical (though biologically explicable) faith in laws, in regularities which we can uncover-discover. Like Bacon, we might describe our own contemporary science-'the method of reasoning which men now… — Karl Popper Copy Share
“As indicated by our example, methodological nominalism is nowadays fairly generally accepted in the natural sciences. The problems of the social sciences, on the… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Science is perhaps the only human activity in which errors are systematically criticized and, in time, corrected. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
A system is empirical or scientific only if it is capable of being tested by experience. These considerations suggest that not the verifiability but… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Bold ideas, unjustified anticipations, and speculative thought, are our only means for interpreting nature: our only organon, our only instrument, for grasping her. And… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
[The aim of science is] to explain what so far has taken to be an explicans, such as a law of nature. The task… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
There can be no ultimate statements science: there can be no statements in science which can not be tested, and therefore none which cannot… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Evolution is not a fact. Evolution doesn't even qualify as a theory or as a hypothesis. It is a metaphysical research program, and it… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
I am opposed to looking upon logic as a kind of game. ... One might think that it is a matter of choice or… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image