Georg Henrik von Wright

“To understand is to see connections.”

“The good of a man is to live in a world where it is not necessary to have to say 'I am a man'.”

“The belief in progress is a doctrine of laziness, a justification for inertia.”

“Man's predicament is that he is a part of nature, and yet he is not.”

“The future is open. It is not something to be predicted, but something to be made.”

“Technology is a double-edged sword. It creates as many problems as it solves.”

“The concept of an action is intrinsically related to the concept of a change.”

“In a sense, all explanation is a form of understanding, but not all understanding is a form of explanation.”

“The world of the happy is a different one from the world of the unhappy.”

“Logic is a tool, not a world-view.”