Continental Philosophy Quotes

“For Habermas, scientism means science’s belief in itself: that is, ‘the conviction that we can no longer understand science as one form of knowledge, but rather must identify knowledge with science’.”
― Simon Critchley, Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction

“True philosophy consists in relearning to look at the world. Maurice Merleau-Ponty”
― Simon Critchley, Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction

“...there is a felt gap here-the gap between knowledge and wisdom- that cannot be closed through empirical enquiry. That is, the question of the meaning of life in not reducible to empirical enquiry. This felt gap between knowkedge and wisdom is the very space of critical reflection. In philosophy, but also more generally in cultural life, we need to clip the wings of both scientism and obscurantism and thereby avoid what is worst in both Continental and analytic philosophy.”
― Simon Critchley, Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction

“We live with – and within – a gap between knowledge and wisdom. It is time philosophers, and everyone else, started to try and think about that gap. Maybe more than our personal peace of mind is at stake.”
― Simon Critchley, Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction

“To utter a word and meaning nothing by it is unworthy of a philosopher. Berkeley”
― Simon Critchley, Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction