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Friedrich Albert Lange Quotes on Truth

Friedrich Albert Lange was a German neo-Kantian philosopher and social theorist and the author of the most influential nineteenth-century critique of materialism. This page collects quotes attributed to Friedrich Albert Lange on the topic of truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Friedrich Albert Lange:

    “Materialism is a useful method, but a false metaphysics.”

  • Attributed to Friedrich Albert Lange:

    “What we call reality is a representation, not a thing in itself.”

  • Attributed to Friedrich Albert Lange:

    “Idealism is the philosophical conscience of the natural sciences.”

  • Attributed to Friedrich Albert Lange:

    “Beautiful illusions are also part of human reality.”