We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel. Man's fall, his need of a new birth, forgiveness… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
In order to live, man must act; in order to act, he must make choices; in order to make choices, he must… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“...any object functioning within the physical laws of any particular universe does not have free will ... In terms of human beings,… — Mark J. Solomon Copy Share Image
The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers. Each of us emerges… — Bryan Magee Copy Share Image
Gaston Milhaud, like many of his contemporaries, sought to overthrow empirical positivism by insisting on the fundamental reality of the mind, but… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“To cut a long story short, thus far the contribution of logical philosophy to metaphysics has been entirely negative. The verdict seems… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
Often the features metaphysicians are interested in, like causation, time, and essence, involve features that seem so basic or are so generally… — L.A. Paul Copy Share Image
The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without. Inevitably anyone with an independent… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
At one time, many philosophers held that faultless "laws of thought" were somehow inherent, a priori, in the very nature of mind.… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
The knowledge that is suited to our situation and powers, the whole compass of moral, natural, and mathematical science, was neglected by… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Starting from Descartes’ commitment to a few absolutely certain innate ideas and reason’s ability to determine some facts about reality a priori,… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
“The average human lifespan compared to the age of the universe is the same as comparing a blink of an eye to… — John K. Brown Copy Share Image
“Certainly, what Kant calls the transcendental reference, experience and object of experience are in a sense present in both opposed views of… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
“The scientific gauge is quantity: space, size, and strength of forces can all be reckoned numerically. The comparable "yardstick" in the traditional… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
“Metaphysics, a completely isolated and speculative branch of rational knowledge which is raised above all teachings of experience and rests on concepts… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Every second, every minute, every hour our bodies breathe in the manna of Heaven. Our bodies resonate with the love and power… — Ramon Ravenswood Copy Share Image
It has never been in my power to study anything, mathematics, ethics, metaphysics, gravitation, thermodynamics, optics, chemistry, comparative anatomy, astronomy, psychology, phonetics,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
“Metaphysics... is nothing but the inventory of all we possess through pure reason, ordered systematically. Nothing here can escape us, because what… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“The sun symbolizes the Divine intelligence; the empty vastness of space symbolizes the Divine All-Possibility and also the Divine immutability; a bird… — Osman Bakar Copy Share Image
“You can take the entire world of physics with all of its macrocosm and microcosm, its quantum mechanics and nuclear physics and… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. Some of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Thus metaphysics and mathematics are, among all the sciences that belong to reason, those in which imagination has the greatest role. I… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
“One of the ways that Heidegger radicalizes Kant is by showing the “subject” to be active in multiple ways rather than limiting… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
Narrative and metaphysics alike become flimsy and frivolous if they venture too far from the home base of all humanism - the… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Questions are not happenstance thoughts nor are questions common problems of today which one picks up from hearsay and booklearning and decks… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
When the Reformation became established, one of the things that was a question between Catholicism and the Reformation traditions was whether there… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“The conscious events that we are aware of are physical events in their own right, just as much as the brain events… — William Hirstein Copy Share Image
“In 1714, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz argued that matter alone could never produce a mind. Leibniz was a German philosopher, mathematician, and scientist… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“He describes A5 here as the act of thinking determining Being: Thinking sets itself against Being in such a way that Being… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
“If metaphysics enjoys the least freedom from assumed premises, man enjoys the least freedom from metaphysics in that metaphysical beliefs are the… — Fazlur Rahman Copy Share Image
“When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make? If we take in our hand any volume… — David Hume Copy Share Image
It's also one of these strange points where metaphysics converges with economy. Because really what the experts are doing is creating value… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
“476. Children do not learn that books exist, that armchairs exist, etc.,etc. - they learn to fetch books, sit in armchairs, etc.,etc.… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Our mania for rational explanations obviously has its roots in our fear of metaphysics, for the two were always hostile brothers. Hence,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“This is the way in which everyday Dasein always is: when I open the door, for instance, I use the latch. The… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
“(On the seeming futility of metaphysics) Why then has nature afflicted our reason with the restless striving for such a path, as… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Only after the concept of knowledge has been based on an ontological relation [*Seinsverhältnis*] can we work out the particular kind of… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
Until educators, individuals, artists, intellectuals and various social movements address how the metaphysics of casino capitalism, war and violence have taken hold… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“In the 1920s, there was a dinner at which the physicist Robert W. Wood was asked to respond to a toast ...… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
![“Only after the concept of knowledge has been based on an ontological relation [*Seinsverhältnis*] can we work out the particular kind of being from which the principle of immanence-to-consciousness (the starting point of Idealism and Critical Realism) mistakenly proceeds as though from a primary…” quote by Max Scheler](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/65c/max-scheler-21013_epistemology_only-after-the-concept-of-knowledge-has_492525.jpg)
