Occupation: Philosopher Birth: June 13, 1884 Death: September 19, 1978
Philosophy always buries its undertakers..
Why are there organized beings? Why is there something rather than nothing? Here again, I fully understand a scientist who refuses to ask it. He is w….
To minds tormented by the divine thirst, it is useless to offer the most certain knowledge of the laws of numbers and the arrangement of the universe.
History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought..
Radiance belongs to being considered precisely as beautiful: it is, in being, that which catches the eye, or the ear, or the mind, and makes us want ….
If our previous analyses are correct, they all point to the same conclusion, that metaphysical adventures are doomed to fail when their authors subst….
Humans feel at home in a world of things, whose essences and laws it can grasp and define in terms of concepts; but shy and ill at ease in a world of….
Man is not a mind that thinks, but a being who knows other beings as true, who loves them as good and who enjoys them as beautiful. For all that whic….
Let us ... quietly accept our times, with the firm conviction that just as much good can be done today as at any time in the past, provided only that….
Faith comes to intelligence as a light that overflows it with joy and inspires it with a certitude that does away with question..