Conception Quote by Michel de Montaigne

Thus Pyrrhonism is not a sect of people who are persuaded of what they say, but it is a sect of liars.

— Antoine Arnauld

Rejecting all organs of informationbut my senses, I rid myself of the Pyrrhonisms with which an indulgence in speculations hyperphysical and antiphysical so uselessly…

— Thomas Jefferson

“[T]his progress of the physical sciences, which the passions and interest do not interfere to disturb; wherein it is not thought that birth, profession,…

— Marquis de Condorcet

People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.

— Bodhidharma

“But if there is a sense of reality, and no one will doubt that it has its justification for existing, then there must also…

— Robert Musil

One who is caught in thought loses one's original nature. All he knows are words and descriptions. When he sees the actual thing, he…

— Dalai Lama

“Those who abdicate the empire of reason and permit their wills to wander in pursuit of reflections in the Astral Light, are subject to…

— Éliphas Lévi

“In my Future of an Illusion I was concerned [...] with what the ordinary man understands by his religion, that system of doctrines and…

— Freud Sigmund

The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and the abandonment of the…

— Sigmund Freud

“Thinking is man’s only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the source of all his evils, is that…

— Ayn Rand

To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm grasping of…

— George Eliot

“To some people independent thought is heresy and critical thought blasphemy”

— rassool jibraeel snyman