Ernst Cassirer Quotes

1874–1945 Germany

Ernst Cassirer (July 28, 1874 – April 13, 1945) was a German Jewish philosopher. Coming out of the Marburg tradition of neo-Kantianism, he developed a philosophy of culture as a theory of symbols founded in a phenomenology of knowledge.

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The facts of science always imply a theoretical, which means a symbolic, element.

An Essay on Man (1944)

Science is the last step in man's mental development and it may be regarded as the highest and most characteristic attainment of human culture.

An Essay on Man (1944)

Man is always inclined to regard the small circle in which he lives as the center of the world and to make his particular, private life the standard of the universe. But he must give up this vain pretense, this petty provincial way of thinking and judging.

An Essay on Man (1944)

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