“What is gained by the transcendence of the object is the identifiability of the object in a plurality of acts and the… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
Metaphysics is the study of the most general nature and basic structure of reality, and therefore the concepts of metaphysics, concepts like… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
“It was a wonderful experience. She mistrusted his very slumbers--and she seemed to think I could tell her why! Thus a poor… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The third preliminary problem for every theory of reality is that of the experience of transcendence. We saw in the case of… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
“It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“...Dasein itself--and this means also its Being-in-the-world--gets its ontological understanding of itself in the first instance from those entities which it itself… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
The so-called Philosophy of India is even more blowsy and senseless than the metaphysics of the West. It is at war with… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“. . . waves of desert heat . . . I must’ve passed out, because when I woke up I was shivering… — Ryan Boudinot Copy Share Image
“Particularly when it comes to chaos magic, building your own optimal metaphysics becomes more challenging when you have to shoehorn it into… — Gordon White Copy Share Image
“The second project is in the field of metaphysics: with the aim of showing that, in the words of Professor H. M.… — Georges Perec Copy Share Image
“He knew perfectly well (even if he wasn’t inclined to admit it) that the material body had a spiritual aspect. He knew… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“I knew in that moment, we were never meant to surrender our childlike innocence, to trade a world in which we fit… — Christina Carson Copy Share Image
You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Do not be afraid of the word 'theory'. Yes, it can sound dauntingly abstract at times, and in the hands of some… — Richard Howells Copy Share Image
Descartes said: "I think, therefore I am." Helvetius wants to say: "I feel, therefore I want to feel pleasantly." I prefer Hobbes… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“[People] cannot live without seeking to describe and explain the universe to themselves. The models they use in doing this must deeply… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
“No matter how you arrive at the awareness and belief that you've lived before and will live again, the most lasting healing… — Lianne Downey Copy Share Image
“Edward had used work and accomplishments throughout his life to keep the misery at bay. He’d endured so much heartache in the… — Steven Decker Copy Share Image
“It is precisely because the principle of the transcendence of the object is completely independent of the existential status of the objects… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
“But how does it come about that while the ‘I think’ gives Kant a genuine phenomenal starting-point, he cannot exploit it ontologically,… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if Cupitt himself still uses this term, but it's useful in suggesting that, actually, there are more choices than… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
“The ‘I’ is a bare consciousness, accompanying all concepts. In the ‘I’, ‘nothing more is represented than a transcendental subject of thoughts’.… — Martin Heidegger 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
“Like the positivists, Wittgenstein was hostile to metaphysics. But he attacked metaphysics not with a blunt instrument like the verification principle, but… — Anthony Kenny Copy Share Image
Ivan and Misha is the great American Russian Novel told as Chekhov would tell it, in stories of delicacy, humanity, and insight.… — Carolyn Cooke Copy Share Image
“When my son speaks of playing sports, I've always told him: playing on the team is great, but aspire to be the… — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“We should start using the mind as a tool, he argues, instead of letting the mind use us, which is the normal… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
“Aristotle's later view of the relationship between mathematics and Nature could not have been more different. He wanted to rescue physical science… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is metaphysics. Metaphysics thinks beings as a whole―the world, man, God―with respect to Being, with respect to the belonging together of… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
Mankind is notoriously too dense to read the signs that God sends from time to time. We require drums to be beaten… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Quantum jumping is the process by which a person envisions some desired result or state of being that is different from the… — Cynthia Sue Larson Copy Share Image
“Both ignorance and the old metaphysics tend to produce these undesirable nervous effects of reversed order and so non-survival evaluation. If we… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
The distinctive contribution that metaphysics makes to our understanding of reality is first that it considers questions about features of reality that… — L.A. Paul Copy Share Image
Since science's competence extends to observable and measurable phenomena, not to the inner being of things, and to the means, not to… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
“But although realism does not add anything to the catalogue of entities or properties that a subjectivist believes to exist in the… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
Neither is there figurative and non-figurative art. All things appear to us in the shape of forms. Even in metaphysics ideas are… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“When in 1863 Thomas Huxley coined the phrase 'Man's Place in Nature,' it was to name a short collection of his essays… — Homer W. Smith Copy Share Image
“In provisionally characterizing the object which serves as the theme of our investigation (the Being of entities, or the meaning of Being… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“But you don’t really mean to say that you couldn’t love me if my name wasn’t Ernest? GWENDOLEN: But your name is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
![“Do not be afraid of the word 'theory'. Yes, it can sound dauntingly abstract at times, and in the hands of some writers can appear to have precious little to do with the actual, visual world around us. Good theory however, is an awesome thing. [...] But unless we actually use it, it borders on the…” quote by Richard Howells](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/346/richard-howells-272656_abstract_do-not-be-afraid-of-the-word-theory-yes_172081.jpg)
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