Corliss Lamont Quotes

Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind

Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

Did they know why they knew? Not at all. But the Knew!

The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they differ otherwise they all agree that it has little to do with logic and is not much conditioned by overt facts.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

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

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is forward, for while seeing is believing, it does not follow that either seeing or believing is knowing.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.

Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.

Man knows much more than he understands.

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

It can't be Nature, for it is not sense.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.

Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.

Wisdom and knowledge are the most valuable things in the body.

Since a thing cannot be known directly or totally, one can only attune to it, with greater or lesser degrees of intimacy.