Epistemology

“I think, therefore I am.”

“La verdad es más necesaria que la libertad, porque la verdad nos hace libres.”

“love reaches beyond knowledge”

“I know theology is not divinity; to me it is very human.”

“Their esse is percipi; nor is it possible they should have any existence out of the minds or thinking things which perceive them.”

“Conjectures ignore dislike and suspicion, but they cannot ignore counterexamples.”

“It is very important to do this in the spirit of truth-seeking and a refusal to yield to the arguments of the regime.”

“An opinion settles nothing unless the truth of the assertion is either self-evident or demonstrated.”

“Love reaches beyond knowledge.”

“A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”

“Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.”

“The real novelty of philosophical thinking lies in seeing new—in the epistemic sense of hitherto unperceived—connections between apparently unconnected conceptual questions or muddles, rather than in creating new concepts.”

“Art interests me greatly, but the truth interests me infinitely more.”

“El arte no es expresión, el arte es conocimiento.”

“Thus it is evident that the utterances of a non-Iranian or non-Central Asian are authoritatively exemplary if he has exerted himself perfectly in the pedagogical imitation of masters and kept the company of competent speakers.”

“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”

“A donde no alcance el telescopio, la razón alcanza.”

“In war, I never knew anything beyond what I could see and hear.”