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“I am philosophical Christ; crucified on the cross of ignorance for the sake of divine vanity.”

Christ Ignorance Divine Crosses Philosophical Sake Vanity

Author:Kedar Joshi

“Dreams ought to produce no conviction whatever on philosophical minds. If we consider how many dreams are dreamt every night, and how many events occur every day, we shall no longer wonder at those accidental coincidences which ignorance mistakes for verifications.”

Ifs Mind Dream Night Mistake Wonder Events Produce Ignorance Ought Philosophical Conviction Every Night Coincidence Verification

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“Two Chinamen visiting Europe went to the theatre for the first time. One of them occupied himself with trying to understand the theatrical machinery, which he succeeded in doing. The other, despite his ignorance of the language, sought to unravel the meaning of the play. The former is like the astronomer, the latter the philosopher.”

Trying Firsts Two Play Science Language Ignorance First Time Europe Philosophical Philosopher Theatre Despite Former Latter Machinery Visiting Theatrical Astronomers

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy; research, the progress; ignorance, the end. There is, by heavens, a strong and generous kind of ignorance that yields nothing, for honour and courage, to knowledge: an ignorance to conceive which needs no less knowledge than to conceive knowledge.”

Needs Kind Ends Philosophy Strong Heaven Wonder Knowledge Progress Ignorance Research Philosophical Foundation Generous Yield Honour

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.”

Thinking Knows Men Firsts Ends Order Wonder Knowledge Ignorance Philosophical Ignorant Utility Owing Puzzled Utilitarian

Author:Aristotle

“One influential philosophical position about the use of probability in science holds that probabilities are objective only if they are based on micro-physics; all other probabilities should be interpreted subjectively, as merely revealing our ignorance about physical details. I have argued against this position, contending that the objectivity of micro-physical probabilities entails the objectivity of macro-probabilities.”

Ifs Should Use Position Ignorance Philosophical Details Physics Objectives Probability Revealing Influential Objectivity Contending Macro

Author:Elliott Sober

“Henry's universe was modeled on the highball. It was a mixture in which half a pint of the fizziest philosophical and scientific ideas all but drowned a small jigger of immediate experience, most of it strictly sexual. Broken reeds are seldom good mixers. They're far too busy with their ideas, their sensuality and their psychosomatic complaints to be able to take an interest in other people - even their own wives and children. They live in a state of the most profound voluntary ignorance, not knowing anything about anybody, but abounding in preconceived opinions about everything.”

Source: Great Short Works of Aldous Huxley

“It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.”

Persons Nature Mistake Ignorance Fool Philosophical Errors Persevere

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.”

“Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.”

Opinion Ignorance Philosophical Mediums Plato Deep Thought Knowledge And Ignorance

Author:Plato

“Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.”

Evil Ignorance Terrible Philosophical Extremes Cleverness

Book:The Complete Works of Plato (Unabridged): From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias

Source: The Complete Works of Plato (Unabridged): From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias

“Whoever would not remain in complete ignorance of the resources which cause him to act; whoever would seize, at a single philosophical glance, the nature of man and animals, and their relations to external objects; whoever would establish, on the intellectual and moral functions, a solid doctrine of mental diseases, of the general and governing influence of the brain in the states of health and disease, should know, that it is indispensable, that the study of the organization of the brain should march side by side with that of its functions.”