Dies Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

— Alfred North Whitehead

I have enormous respect for Derek Parfit, although he seems to me bound within an unfortunate philosophical tradition - rather like the extraordinarily brilliant…

— Philip Kitcher

The importance of Plotinus is not only his own philosophical ideas which are quite interesting, but his historical impact as the founder of neo-Platonism…

— Peter Adamson

“...there is no underlying reality to the world. "Reality," in the everyday sense, is not a good way to think about the behavior of…

— John Gribbin

“Reality outside the quantum world of particles and waves might be fixed and objective, at least according to most scientists. But how we think…

— Scott Adams

God is not someone or something separate but is the suchness in each moment, the underlying reality.

— Stephen Levine

Like the appearance of silver in mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is realized.

— Anonymous

“In other words, there is no single underlying reality that is independent of our observations. “It is wrong to think that the task of…

— Walter Isaacson

I contend that financial markets never reflect the underlying reality accurately; they always distort it in some way or another and the distortions find…

— George Soros

I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any.

— Edward Abbey

I think in fact that unless there is an organic link between the subjective impressions of the author and his objective representation of reality,…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

“In Darwins post-platonische werelds is de variatie de fundamentele werkelijkheid en veranderen berekende gemiddelden in abstracties. We blijven echter de voorkeur geven aan het…

— Stephen Jay Gould