intellectual confusion Quotes

A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.

It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

Who would have thought around 1900 that in fifty years time we would know so much more and understand so much less.

In fact I'm in too much of a mental muddle to know where I am - an idealist or not. I'm a mere man of letters, and I do what I can with those subjects.

The lies we tell about our duty and our purposes, the meaningless words of science and philosophy, are walls that topple before a bewildered little ‘why’.

However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.

I remember thinking when I was in college that a lot of these known Chomsky-like, verbose, high-lefty thinkers made absolutely no sense, but I thought that was my problem.

See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense! See Mystery to Mathematics fly!

What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves?

He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.