Leon Brunschvicg Quotes on Knowledge
Leon Brunschvicg was a French philosopher and the leading representative of French rationalist idealism in the first decades of the twentieth century. This page collects quotes attributed to Leon Brunschvicg on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
-
Attributed to Leon Brunschvicg:
“The history of mathematics is the autobiography of the human mind.”
-
Attributed to Leon Brunschvicg:
“Reason is what the human spirit has done, not a faculty given once for all.”
-
Attributed to Leon Brunschvicg:
“Self-knowledge is achieved in the works of intelligence, not in introspection.”
-
Attributed to Leon Brunschvicg:
“Science is the laboratory in which philosophy meets reality.”
-
Attributed to Leon Brunschvicg:
“Each great theory in physics widens our notion of what it is to be.”