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“...a distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man's imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection.”

Source: What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches

“Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain”

Should Words Of Wisdom Speech Devoted Straightforward

Author:Seneca the Younger

“.... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow.”

Whole Order Words Of Wisdom Pantheism

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“Transient are conditioned things. Try to accomplish your aim with diligence.”

Trying Words Of Wisdom Aim Accomplish Diligence Transient

Author:Gautama Buddha

“I will teach you the Truth and the Path leading to the Truth.”

Teach Path Words Of Wisdom

Author:Gautama Buddha

“...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.”

Inspirational Philosophy Love Is Education Teach Objects Words Of Wisdom Educational Ancient Greek Greek Philosopher Philosophy Of Education Greek Philosophy Ancient Greek Philosophers Ancient Philosophy

Book:The Republic

Source: The Republic

“If you want it to be so, history can be a waste of time; it can also be, if you want it to be so, a study bearing fruit beyond price.”

Ifs Want Study Words Of Wisdom Waste Fruit Wasting Time Bearing Fruit

Book:The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

Source: The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

“'Wars, factions, and fighting,' said Socrates as he looked forward from his last hour, 'have no other origin than this same body and its lusts... We must set the soul free from it; we must behold things as they are. And having thus got rid of the foolishness of the body, we shall be pure and hold converse with the pure, and shall in our own selves have complete knowledge of the Incorruptible which is, I take it, no other than the very truth.”

Said War Soul Self Body Lasts Fighting Hours Words Of Wisdom Pure Lust Foolishness Converses Factions

Author:Socrates

“...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.”

Principles Movement Words Of Wisdom Physicist Preoccupation

Author:Aristotle

“... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.”

Kind Principles Words Of Wisdom Activity Substance

Author:Aristotle

“Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles.”

Doe Lying Causes Principles Words Of Wisdom Primaries Premises Demonstration

Author:Aristotle

“... a science must deal with a subject and its properties.”

Deals Subjects Words Of Wisdom Property

Author:Aristotle

“... the science we are after is not about mathematicals either none of them, you see, is separable.”

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Author:Aristotle

“But also philosophy is not about perceptible substances they, you see, are prone to destruction.”

Philosophy Words Of Wisdom Destruction Substance Hey You

Author:Aristotle

“Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.”

Words Of Wisdom Concepts Starting Metaphysics Intuitive Starting Point

Author:Aristotle

“The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then only intermittently. For the rest there is a second-best way of life, that of moral virtue and practical wisdom.”

Men Way Philosophy Moral Virtue Words Of Wisdom Capable Practicals Best Way Theoretical Second Best Moral Virtues

Author:Aristotle

“We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe struggle; for the handful of those who are really determined to do something is minute in comparison with the mass of the lukewarm and the misguided. And those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going are a very powerful body; they will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends.”

Source: Ideas and Opinions

“I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.”

Force Lines Space Existence Conditions Words Of Wisdom

Book:On the Physical Character of the Lines of Magnetic Force: With a Plate

Source: On the Physical Character of the Lines of Magnetic Force: With a Plate

“When a mathematician engaged in investigating physical actions and results has arrived at his own conclusions, may they not be expressed in common language as fully, clearly, and definitely as in mathematical formulae? If so, would it not be a great boon to such as well to express them so -- translating them out of their hieroglyphics that we might also work upon them by experiment?”

Ifs Wells May Might Action Language Results Common Words Of Wisdom Experiments Conclusion Mathematical Engaged Translate Mathematician Investigating Boon Common Language Hieroglyphics

Author:Michael Faraday

“... if you insist that the inference is made by a chain of reasoning, I desire you to produce that reasoning. The connection between the two is not intuitive. There is required a medium, which may enable the mind to draw such an inference, if indeed it be drawn by reasoning and argument. What that medium is, I must confess, passes my comprehension; and it is incumbent on those to produce it, who assert that it really exists, and is the origin of all our conclusions concerning matter of fact.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

“We find in the course of nature that though the effects be many, the principles from which they arise are commonly few and simple, and that it is the sign of an unskilled naturalist to have recourse to a different quality in order to explain every different operation.”

Different Order Courses Simple Quality Principles Effects Words Of Wisdom Arise Operations Naturalist Recourse

Author:David Hume

“The supposition that the future resembles the past, is not founded on arguments of any kind, but is derived entirely from habit.”

Kind Past Habit Words Of Wisdom Argument Supposition

Book:A Treatise of Human Nature: Top Philosophy Collections

Source: A Treatise of Human Nature: Top Philosophy Collections

“..all arguments concerning existence are founded on the relation of cause and effect; that our knowledge of that relation is derived entirely from experience; and all our experimental conclusions proceed upon the supposition that the future will be conformable to the past. .... Without the influence of custom, we should be entirely ignorant of every matter of fact beyond what is immediately present to the memory and senses.”

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Author:David Hume

“And as this is the obvious appearance of things, it must be admitted, till some hypothesis be discovered, which by penetrating deeper into human nature, may prove the former affections to be nothing but modifications of the latter. All attempts of this kind have hitherto proved fruitless, and seem to have proceeded entirely from that love of simplicity which has been the source of much false reasoning in philosophy.”

Source: Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects

“The difference between a man who is led by opinion or emotion and one who is led by reason. The former, whether he will or not, performs things of which he is entirely ignorant; the latter is subordinate to no one, and only does those things which he knows to be of primary importance in his life, and which on that account he desires the most; and therefore I call the former a slave, but the latter free.”

Knows Men Doe Reason Desire Differences Emotion Opinion Words Of Wisdom Accounts Importance Slave Ignorant Former Primaries Latter Subordinates

Author:David Hume

“The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one.”

Causes Words Of Wisdom Obvious Simplest True Ones

Book:Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

“Natural science physics contains in itself synthetical judgments a priori, as principles. ... Space then is a necessary representation a priori, which serves for the foundation of all external intuitions.”

Natural Space Principles Words Of Wisdom Judgment Foundation Intuition Physics Representation Natural Science Science Physics

Author:Immanuel Kant

“Time is not an empirical concept. For neither co-existence nor succession would be perceived by us, if the representation of time did not exist as a foundation a priori.”

Ifs Would Be Existence Words Of Wisdom Concepts Foundation Representation Succession

Author:Immanuel Kant

“Here I shall add that the concept of change, and with it the concept of motion, as change of place, is possible only through and in the representation of time. & Motion, for example, presupposes the perception of something movable. But space considered in itself contains nothing movable; consequently motion must be something which is found in space only through experience -in other words, is an empirical datum.”

Found Space Example Words Of Wisdom Perception Concepts Add Data Representation

Author:Immanuel Kant

“Upon the solution of this problem, or upon sufficient proof of the impossibility of synthetical knowledge a priori, depends the existence or downfall of metaphysics.”

Problem Existence Depends Words Of Wisdom Solutions Proof Sufficient Metaphysics Impossibility Downfall

Book:Delphi Collected Works of Immanuel Kant (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of Immanuel Kant (Illustrated)

“This can never become popular, and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for fine-spun arguments in favour of useful truths make just as little impression on the public mind as the equally subtle objections brought against these truths. On the other hand, since both inevitably force themselves on every man who rises to the height of speculation, it becomes the manifest duty of the schools to enter upon a thorough investigation of the rights of speculative reason, and thus to prevent the scandal which metaphysical controversies are sure, sooner or later, to cause even to the masses.”

Source: Critique of pure reason, tr. by J.M.D. Meiklejohn

“Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another. I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general.”

Reality Found Materials Source Words Of Wisdom Activity All Things Essence Substance Interconnection

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.”

Ideas Reason Facts Causes Teach Possibility Words Of Wisdom Mark Genuine Conceiving

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“I agree with you that it is important to examine our presuppositions, throughly and once for all, in order to establish something solid. For I hold that it is only when we can prove all that we bring forward that we perfectly understand the thing under consideration. I know that the common herd takes little pleasure in these researches, but I know also that the common herd take little pains thoroughly to understand things.”

Knows Littles Important Pain Order Pleasure Common Words Of Wisdom Prove Research Agree Consideration Herds

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“But it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us reason and the sciences, raising us to knowledge of ourselves and God. It is this in us which we call the rational soul or mind.”

Giving Mind Soul Reason Animal Words Of Wisdom Eternal Mere Rational

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached. It is this way that in mathematics speculative theorems and practical canons are reduced by analysis to definitions, axioms and postulates.”

Way Ideas Reason Found Words Of Wisdom Truth Is Mathematics Definitions Practicals Primaries Analysis Axioms Theorems Canon

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.”

Reason Lying Source Words Of Wisdom Ultimate Substance Word Of God Differentiation

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“Thus God alone is the primary Unity, or original simple substance, from which all monads, created and derived, are produced.”

Simple Words Of Wisdom Originals Unity Primaries Substance

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“Now this connection or adaption of all created things with each, and of each with all the rest, means that each simple substance has relations which express all the others, and that consequently it is a perpetual living mirror of the universe.”

Mean Universe Simple Words Of Wisdom Connections Relation Mirrors Substance Perpetual

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“The monad, of which we shall speak here, is nothing but a simple substance which enters into compounds; simple, that is to say, without parts.”

Speak Simple Words Of Wisdom Substance Compounds

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples.”

Simple Words Of Wisdom Substance Collections Compounds

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.”

Words Of Wisdom Shapes Elements Atoms Extensions

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.”

Way Mean Courses Simple Words Of Wisdom Substance

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“Indeed every monad must be different from every other. For there are never in nature two beings, which are precisely alike, and in which it is not possible to find some difference which is internal, or based on some intrinsic quality.”

Two Different Differences Quality Words Of Wisdom Internals

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“I also take it as granted that every created thing, and consequently the created monad also, is subject to change, and indeed that this change is continual in each one.”

Subjects Words Of Wisdom Granted

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“Everybody felt his superiority, but nobody felt oppressed by it. Though he had no illusions about people and human affairs, he was full of kindness toward everybody and everything. Never did he give the impression of domineering, always of serving and helping. He was extremely conscientious, without allowing anything to assume undue importance; a subtle humor guarded him, which was reflected in his eyes and in his smile.”

People Giving Humans Helping Eye Felt Kindness Words Of Wisdom Illusion Importance Assuming Affair Impression His Eyes Subtle Serving Allowing Oppressed Superiority Guarded His Smile

Book:Ideas and Opinions

Source: Ideas and Opinions

“In speaking of the Energy of the field, however, I wish to be understood literally. All energy is the same as mechanical energy, whether it exists in the form of motion or in that of elasticity, or in any other form. The energy in electromagnetic phenomena is mechanical energy.”

Form Energy Wish Fields Words Of Wisdom Understood Elasticity

Book:The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell

Source: The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell

“THE SLOW ARROW OF BEAUTY. The noblest kind of beauty is that which does not transport us suddenly, which does not make stormy and intoxicating impressions such a kind easily arouses disgust but that which slowly filters into our minds.”

Mind Kind Doe Words Of Wisdom Impression Disgusting Arrows Transport Filters Stormy

Book:Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

“THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very high plane he does not easily find anyone to share his pleasure; he offers entertainment but nobody accepts it. That gives him, in certain circumstances, a comically touching pathos; for he has no right to force pleasure on men. He pipes, but none will dance: can that be tragic?”

Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

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