Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.

Philosophy as science, as serious, rigorous, indeed apodictically rigorous science -- the dream is over.

In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.

If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals.

To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.

All perception is a gamble.

Merely fact-minded sciences make merely fact-minded people.