303 Quotes About Idealism


  • Author Arthur Schopenhauer
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    [T]he empirical inscrutableness of all natural things is a proof a posteriori of the ideality and merely phenomenal-actuality of their empirical existence.

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  • Author Karl Marx
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    To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is therefore in embryo the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo

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  • Author Heather Abel
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    One had to at all times remain free of the delusion that anybody was who you believed them to be.

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  • Author David R. Loy
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    Our problem today is that we no longer believe in things but in symbols, hence our life has passed over into these symbols and their manipulation— only to find ourselves manipulated by the symbols we take so seriously, objectified in our objectifications.

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  • Author Robert Lanza
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    By striving to see through the veil of our ordinary perceptions, we can come closer to understanding our profound relationship to all created things—all possibilities and potentialities—past and present, great and small.

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