Friedrich Albert Lange Quotes
Friedrich Albert Lange was a German neo-Kantian philosopher and social theorist and the author of the most influential nineteenth-century critique of materialism. Trained at Bonn and Zurich, he spent his career between Duisburg, Winterthur, and Marburg, where he was finally appointed to a chair shortly before his death. The quotes below are attributed to Friedrich Albert Lange, organized by topic.
Friedrich Albert Lange on Nature
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Attributed to Friedrich Albert Lange:
“Materialism is a useful method, but a false metaphysics.”
Friedrich Albert Lange on Politics
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Attributed to Friedrich Albert Lange:
“The labor question is the moral question of our age.”
Friedrich Albert Lange on Truth
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Attributed to Friedrich Albert Lange:
“What we call reality is a representation, not a thing in itself.”
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Attributed to Friedrich Albert Lange:
“Idealism is the philosophical conscience of the natural sciences.”
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Attributed to Friedrich Albert Lange:
“Beautiful illusions are also part of human reality.”