“Metaphysics thinks about beings as beings. Wherever the question is asked what beings are, beings as such are in sight. Metaphysical representation… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“Sitting there on the heather, on our planetary grain, I shrank from the abysses that opened up on every side, and in… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
What the Metaphysics of Quality would do is take this separate category, Quality, and show how it contains within itself both subjects… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“The three greatest metaphysicians who ever existed - Plato, Aristotle and St.Thomas Aquinas - had no system in the idealistic sense of… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share Image
“It must be *possible* for the *I think* to accompany all my representations: for otherwise something would be represented within me that… — Immanuel Kant 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
“Heidegger spoke of two modes of existence: the everyday mode and the ontological mode. In the everyday mode we are consumed with… — Irvin D. Yalom 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
“...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
What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“On the other hand, the moral law, although it gives no such prospect, does provide a fact absolutely inexplicable from any data… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Our critique is not opposed to the *dogmatic procedure* of reason in its pure knowledge as science (for science must always be… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Art is a concretization of metaphysics. Art brings man’s concepts to the perceptual level of his consciousness and allows him to grasp… — Ayn Rand, The Romatic Manifesto Copy Share Image
“Domination and critique have always formed an apparatus covertly against a common hostis: the conspirator, who works under cover, who used everything… — Tiqqun Copy Share Image
Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing, in order to locate what is… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
“4.19. Dedekind's approach is a singular combination of Descartes' Cogito and the idea of the idea in Spinoza. The starting point is… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
“My object is to persuade all those who think metaphysics worth studying that it is absolutely necessary to pause a moment and,… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
There will be some fundamental assumptions which adherents of all the variant systems within the epoch unconsciously presuppose. Such assumptions appear so… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Heidegger wrote a book called Was Ist Das Ding - What Is a Thing? which was kind of interesting and influential to… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
“Q. But it seems to me there are circumstances that simply induce one to have negative emotions! A. This is one of… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
In my formative years the people who influenced me most were the Christian existentialists, I mean men like Munier and Kierkegaard and… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
The truth of the thoughts that are here set forth seems to me unassailable and definitive. I therefore believe myself to have… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“The body is a treacherous friend. Give it its due; no more. Pain and pleasure are transitory; endure all dualities with calmness,… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“On the other hand, it is also characteristic of the state of philosophical inquiry today and has been for a long time… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
Metaphysics of Evolution: What is Matter & Life? 'Recent discoveries from Russia confirm that DNA / Genes are resonant structures which are… — Alan Haselhurst Copy Share Image
“Anyone who can relax, clear their mind, and envision being different in some way—such as more successful, funny, healthy, wealthy, or wise—can… — Cynthia Sue Larson Copy Share Image
“This experiment succeeds as hoped and promises to metaphysics, in its first part, which deals with those *a priori* concepts to which… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Although he initiates anti-realism, Kant retains two key elements of realism in his system. First, in order to secure the stability—that is,… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is like being in a dark room and looking for a black cat. Metaphysics is like being in a dark room… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I always see increasing numbers who have attained to the negative goal, but as yet few who… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“From *the form of time and of the single dimension* of the series of representations, on account of which the intellect, in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“In reality, mankind is still metaphysically in God’s likeness, but God’s image in mankind has been altered by sin. We can no… — Reid A. Ashbaucher Copy Share Image
“Tell me what you make of Locke, then, and his difference with Descartes." Vivian took the book from him and spread her… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“Zsoronga, Sorweel was beginning to realize, possessed the enviable ability to yoke his conviction to his need — to believe, absolutely, whatever… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“Suppose a human being has thus put his ear, as it were, to the heart chamber of the world will and felt… — Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Copy Share Image
