Joseph Dietzgen: Thought

Joseph Dietzgen was german philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on thought.
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“Logic aims to instruct the human mind as to its own nature and processes; it will lay bare the interior working of our mind for our guidance. The object of the study of logic is thought, its nature, and its proper classification.”

Joseph Dietzgen

Letter 2
Letters on Logic: Especially Democratic-Proletarian Logic (1906)

“It is with logic as it is with other sciences. They draw wisdom from the mysterious source of plain experience. Agriculture, e. g., aims to teach the farmer how to cultivate the soil; but fields were tilled long before any agricultural college had begun its lectures. In the same way human beings think without ever having heard of logic. But by practice they improve their innate faculty of thought, they make progress, they gradually learn to make better use of it. Finally, just as the farmer arrives at the science of agriculture, so the thinker arrives at logic, acquires a clear consciousness of his faculty of thought and a professional dexterity in applying it.”

Joseph Dietzgen

Letter 2
Letters on Logic: Especially Democratic-Proletarian Logic (1906)

“It is a peculiarity of thought that it never stays with itself, but always digresses to other things.”

Joseph Dietzgen

Letter 2
Letters on Logic: Especially Democratic-Proletarian Logic (1906)

“The human brain performs the function of thinking as involuntarily as the chest the function of breathing. However, we can, by our will, stop breathing for a while, and accelerate or retard the breathing movements. In the same way, the will can control the thoughts. We may choose any object as the subject matter of our thought, and yet we may quickly convince ourselves that the power of our will and the freedom of the mind are not any greater than the freedom of the chest in breathing.”

Joseph Dietzgen

Letter 2
Letters on Logic: Especially Democratic-Proletarian Logic (1906)