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Epistemology Quotes

"A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true"

"The world is my idea."

"Science is nothing but perception"

"Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence"

"The truth is that we live on a bottomless and shifting reality"

"Empiricism is overrated in the sense that it doesn’t predict future events well"

"What men call knowledge is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances"

"What is real and what is true are not necessarily the same"

"If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide that proves they should value it?"

"To be is to be perceived or to perceive."

"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"

"All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason There is nothing higher than reason"

"There are two kinds of truths: those of reasoning and those of fact."

"Truth happens to an idea."

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