Epistemology Quotes

"Consciousness is an effect not a cause." "Cogito ergo sum " "The most lively thought is still inferior to the dullest sensation." "Truth is of the world; it is produced there by virtue of multiple constraints" "We can know only one thing: that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom." "The relation between power and knowledge is not one of exteriority" "In scientific thought, a process of verification arises out of the necessity of resolving the divergence of experience from the pre-established framework of knowledge " "Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality" "It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true" "The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way" "Idealism is the assertion that we have an absolute finite knowledge of the infinite whereas realism professes that the infinite is known to us only relatively and therefore must remain always a mystery to us" "If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide that proves they should value it?" "Knowledge is true opinion" "All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation" "The truth is that we live on a bottomless and shifting reality" "The wise man does not believe in absolute certainty" "It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it." "Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises"