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C. D. Broad was a prominent philosopher known for his research in metaphysics, epistemology, and religious philosophy. His works have had a profound impact on 20th-century philosophy.

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Famous C. D. Broad Quotes

“A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to hunger and thirst after it is often merely a symptom of spiritual diabetes.”

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Book:Five Types of Ethical Theory

Source: Five Types of Ethical Theory

“... a curious superstition. This is the belief that, if there be introspection at all, it must give exhaustive and infallible information.”

Ifs Giving Belief Information Curious Superstitions Introspection Infallible

Book:The Mind and Its Place in Nature

Source: The Mind and Its Place in Nature

“the future is simply nothing at all. Nothing has happened to the present by becoming past except that fresh slices of existence have been added to the total history of the world. The past is thus as real as the present.”

World Has Beens Real Past Existence Happened Becoming Future World History

Book:The Nature of Existence:

Source: The Nature of Existence:

“...By a 'silly' theory I mean one which may be held at the time when one is talking or writing professionally, but which only an inmate of a lunatic asylum would think of carrying into daily life. ... It must not be supposed that the men who maintain these theories and beliefs are 'silly' people. Only very acute and learned men could have thought of anything so odd or defended anything so preposterous against the continual protests of common sense.”

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Author:C. D. Broad

“Telepathy, both simultaneous and precognitive, is now an experimentally established fact.”

Facts Telepathy Simultaneous

Author:C. D. Broad

“It is worth remembering (though there is nothing that we can do about it) that the world as it really is may easily be a far nastier place than it would be if scientific materialism were the whole truth and nothing but the truth about it.”

Ifs World May Whole Would Be Truth Remember Can Do Materialism Whole Truth Nothing But The Truth

Book:Lectures on Psychical Research (Routledge Revivals): Incorporating the Perrott Lectures Given in Cambridge University in 1959 and 1960

Source: Lectures on Psychical Research (Routledge Revivals): Incorporating the Perrott Lectures Given in Cambridge University in 1959 and 1960

“Now I do not myself share that superstitious reverence for the beliefs of common sense which many contemporary philosophers profess. But I think that we must start from them, and that we ought to depart from them only when we find good reason to do so.”

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Author:C. D. Broad

“As so often happens in philosophy, clever people accept a false general principle on a priori grounds and then devote endless labour and ingenuity to explaining away plain facts which obviously conflict with it.”

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Author:C. D. Broad

“I shall no doubt be blamed by certain scientists, and, I am afraid, by some philosophers, for having taken serious account of the alleged facts which are investigated by Psychical Researchers. I am wholly impenitent about this. The scientists in question seem to me to confuse the Author of Nature with the Editor of Nature; or at any rate to suppose that there can be no productions of the former which would not be accepted for publication by the latter. And I see no reason to believe this.”

“Induction is the glory of science and the scandal of philosophy.”

Philosophy Glory Scandal

Author:C. D. Broad

About the Author

Born: December 30, 1887
Died: March 11, 1971
Known for: Philosopher
Quotes: 10

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Five Types of Ethical TheoryRelated source material

Lectures on Psychical Research (Routledge Revivals): Incorporating the Perrott Lectures Given in Cambridge University in 1959 and 1960Related source material

The Mind and Its Place in NatureRelated source material

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