philosophy Quotes

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.