C. I. Lewis Quotes on Mind
Clarence Irving Lewis was an American philosopher and the principal figure of the third generation of American pragmatism. This page collects quotes attributed to C. I. Lewis on the topic of mind, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to C. I. Lewis:
“Mind and the world order require each other.”
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Attributed to C. I. Lewis:
“There can be no a priori knowledge save by way of categorial schemes.”
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“But the man is a humbug — a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world. He has the journalist's air of being a specialist in everything, of taking in all points of view and being always on the side of the angels: he merely annoys a reader who has the least experience of knowing things, of what knowing is like. There is not two pence worth of real thought or real nobility in him. But he isn't dull.”
Part of a diary entry dated "Wednesday–Wednesday 9–16 July", 1924, regarding Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay . | Lewis, C. S. (1991). Hooper, Walter. ed (in English). All My Road Before Me: The Diary of C. S. Lewis, 1922–1927 . San Diego - New York - London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. p. 344. ISBN 0151046093 . -
“For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.”
Bluspels and Flalansferes: A Semantic Nightmare", Rehabilitations and Other Essays (1939)