Charles Dunbar Broad

“The most that can be said for materialism is that it may be true.”

“The existent world is not a dream, but it may be a dream-like modification of a wider reality.”

“The mind-body problem is the rock on which all purely materialistic theories of the universe have been wrecked.”

“It is a platitude that we are influenced by our desires in our beliefs.”

“If a man is to be a philosopher in any important sense, he must be prepared to be in a minority of one.”

“Hume's philosophy, whether true or false, represents the bankruptcy of eighteenth-century reasonableness.”

“Induction is the glory of science and the scandal of philosophy.”

“A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but it is apt to degenerate into a morbid craving for justification.”

“The Plain Man has always been the Stooge of the Theorist.”

“The world as we know it is a compromise between the world as it is and the world as we would like it to be.”

“The function of a philosopher is not to believe, but to understand.”

“Pure reason is a myth.”

“The ideal of a completely rational man is a fiction.”

“What we perceive is a selection from the total physical reality, and the selection is determined by our interests.”

“Ethics is the systematic study of the ultimate problems of human conduct.”

“To be a good philosopher, a man must have a strong desire to know, a great capacity for lucid and consecutive thought, and a willingness to follow the argument wherever it may lead.”