“The accusation of metaphysics has become in philosophy something like the accusation of being a security risk in the public service. I… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“To clarify the existentiality of the Self, we take as our ‘natural’ point of departure Dasein’s everyday interpretation of the Self. In… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
The role of metaphysics in relation to other disciplines, whether philosophical or not and including the natural sciences, is thus a foundational… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
“By this freedom the will of a rational being, as belonging to the sensuous world, recognizes itself to be, like all other… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, half the boats were lost in a great storm at sea, and many members of the six boats that did make… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“In fact, the balance wheel which maintains in motion the watch of metaphysics that never runs down, is the clear knowledge that… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I see with much pleasure that you are working on a large work on the integral Calculus [ ... ] The reconciliation… — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
In the metaphysical elements of aesthetics the various nonmoral feelings are to be made use of; in the elements of moral metaphysics… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“...imagine that you hold in one hand an oddly shaped stone. You keep this hand closed into a fist, but still you… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“How many planes there are, we do not know. The levels of nature that science discriminates give us no clue, for these… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
The hymns of David, the plays of Shakespeare, the metaphysics of Descartes, the crimes of Borgia, the virtues of Antonine, the atheism… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
For some days I quietly worked out in my own mind the metaphysics of Cosmic Unity. The more I thought about it,… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Perfection is the exclusive attribute of God, and it is indescribable, untranslatable. I do believe that it is possible for human beings… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“What constitutes the various species? [...] Here we come up against the perennial question of human thought, which even evolutionism cannot evade:… — Christoph Schönborn Copy Share Image
That is my morality or my metaphysics or me myself: a passer-by in everything, even my own soul. I belong to nothing,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“A professor from UBC observed that he agreed with Alexander Pope about the ultimate unreality of evil. Seen from the highest point… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“All our language is composed of brief little dreams; and the wonderful thing is that we sometimes make of them strangely accurate… — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
“The most perfect and satisfactory knowledge is that of perception but this is limited to the absolutely particular, to the individual. The… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Kantian ethical theory distinguishes three levels: First, that of a fundamental principle (the categorical imperative, formulated in three main ways in Kant's… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
It's so hard to believe in anything anymore. I mean, it's like, religion, you really can't take it seriously, because it seems… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“From the study of the development of human intelligence, in all directions, and through all times, the discovery arises of a great… — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
“...being aware that the sacred quality hidden in the experience of eroticism is something impossible for language to reach (this is also… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“It is this discovery of A5 Active Knower that separates Kant from all previous thinkers. Since reality is at least partially determined… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
the senses alone are not implicitly to be depended on. We must correct their evidence by reason, and by considerations, derived from… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Now these two questions Does there exist a material reality distinct from sensible appearances? and What is the nature of reality? do… — Pierre Duhem Copy Share Image
“Reality is non-directional, layered, and potential- all things at once and non-real in the sense that real is an unknown, so "real"… — Laren Grey Umphlett Copy Share Image
“Spinoza formulated the profoundly important principle that *all determination is negation*. To determine a thing is to cut it off from some… — W.T. Stace Copy Share Image
A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The mystery of sound is mysticism; the harmony of life is religion. The knowledge of vibrations is metaphysics, the analysis of atoms… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
“He distinguishes between the German word Seiende, which can refer to any individual entity, such as a mouse or a church door,… — Sarah Bakewell Copy Share Image
“The Kantian Paradigm embraces what I am calling the Empirical Directive by changing the conception of the self from a substance like… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
“Instantaneous interpretation hails from the Limbo that produced unsensed sensibilia, unconscious inference, incorrigible statements, negative facts and Objektive. These are ideas which… — Norwood Russell Hanson Copy Share Image
“That afternoon She listened to the grievances of the dead from two warring nations. Both sides had suffered, both sides had legitimate… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“Organizing one’s system around the A5 Active Knower is an essential feature of the Kantian Paradigm: the examination of anything else, including… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
“I believe that the disenchantment of the modern universe is the direct result of a simplistic epistemology and moral posture spectacularly inadequate… — Richard Tarnas Copy Share Image
“Philosophy in its old form could exist only in the absence of engineering, but with engineering in existence and daily more active… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
“We assert now that Being is the proper and sole theme of philosophy. This is not our own invention; it is a… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“Kant discovered A5 Active Knower. In a 1927 letter to Husserl, Heidegger is quite explicit about how important this issue is to… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
“About some books we feel that our reluctance to return to them is the true measure of our admiration. It is hard… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
“There was a metal rod inside of Colin. The rod went from his stomach to the middle of his head. It was… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
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