Ernst Cassirer Quotes on Knowledge
Ernst Cassirer was a German Jewish philosopher and the leading representative of the Marburg neo-Kantian tradition in the twentieth century. This page collects quotes attributed to Ernst Cassirer on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Ernst Cassirer:
“Man is a symbolic animal.”
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Attributed to Ernst Cassirer:
“Language is the great symbol-making activity of the human mind.”
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Attributed to Ernst Cassirer:
“Human culture taken as a whole may be described as the process of man's progressive self-liberation.”
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Attributed to Ernst Cassirer:
“We can only know ourselves through the works we create.”