A Quote by Immanuel Kant

It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.

Immanuel Kant

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Consists Knowing Limits Philosophy Precisely

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Immanuel Kant
German - Philosopher
April 22, 1724 - February 12, 1804

The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.

Konrad Adenauer

Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of elucidations. Philosophy does not result in 'philosophical propositions', but rather in the clarification of propositions. Without philosophy thoughts are, as it were, cloudy and indistinct: its task is to make them clear and to give them sharp boundaries.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

Herbert Hoover

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.

Herbert Hoover

Any fool can see the limits of seeing, but not even the wisest know the limits of knowing. Thus is ignorance rendered invisible, and are all Men made fools.

R. Scott Bakker

There is a truth in Schopenhauer’s view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and end, is a sort of contradiction. ... In philosophy matters are not simple enough for us to say ‘Let’s get a rough idea’, for we do not know the country except by knowing the connections between the roads.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

I started philosophy looking for answers. But along the way I came to prize exploring the questions. Progress in philosophy consists, I think, in a clearer delineation of the conceptual options, not in reaching determinate conclusions.

Kwame Anthony Appiah

The worth of every conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.

Jane Addams

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born

Antonio Gramsci

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.