Quotes by : Ernst Cassirer

The facts of science always imply a theoretical, which means a symbolic, element.

Such is the strange situation in which modern philosophy finds itself. No former age was ever in such....

Man is always inclined to regard the small circle in which he lives as the center of the world and to....

...it would be a very naive sort of dogmatism to assume that there exists an absolute reality of things....

The form of observation , which underlines all speech and language development, always expresses a peculiar....

Absolute trust in the reality of things begins to be shaken as the problem of truth enters upon the scene.....

There is no remedy against this reversal of the natural order. Man cannot escape from his own achievement.....

It is necessary, first of all, to find a correct logical starting point, one which can lead us to a natural....