172 Quotes About Epistemology

Why should things be easy to understand?

Whatever is known has always seemed systematic, proven, applicable, and evident to the knower. Every alien system of knowledge has likewise seemed contradictory, unproven, inapplicable, fanciful, or mystical. May not the time have come to assume a less egocentric, more general point of view and to speak of comparative epistemology?

It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society.

A religion is not judged by the contents of its book but by the power of its Spirit.

Each species has its own sensory world, which are often very different from each other species sensory world. There is some overlap between these worlds but there are many aspects of one species world which will be completely unknown to members of other species. The human view of the world is only one view and is no more valid than that of any other species.

Believe nothing you haven’t seen.See for yourself and live everything.Believe nothing. Live everything.Live. Don’t believe.

The Bible is clear: Truth exists. It can be known. And when we ground our beliefs in it, we are rational.

Love is nothing but Joy with the accompanying idea of an external cause (Ethics, part III, proposition 13, scholium).

Thus nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent: the nightingale for his song: the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves, and should turn them into odes of self-congratulation on the excellency of the human mind. Nature is a dull affair, soundless, scentless, colourless...