“Q. Surely it is easier to be objective about other people than about oneself? A. No, it is more difficult. If you become… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
“Human existence can relate to beings only if it holds itself out into the nothing. Going beyond beings occurs in the essence… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“There appears to be a fifth way, that of eminence. According to this I argue that it is incompatible with the idea… — John Duns Scotus Copy Share Image
“We have seen, therefore, that I am not allowed even to *assume*, for the sake of the necessary practical use of my… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Dasein *is authentically itself* in the primordial individualization of the reticent resoluteness which exacts anxiety of itself. *As something that keeps *silent*,… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“Because they are assertions about Being in the light of time properly understood, all ontological propositions are Temporal propositions. It is only… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“Ontically, of course, Dasein is not only close to us―even that which is closest: we *are* it, each of us, we ourselves.… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“A metaphysical understanding of what the world is, how it works, and how it all fits together, in general and abstract terms,… — Stephen Mumford Copy Share Image
“Ushikawa always saw himself as a realist, and he actually was. Metaphysical speculation wasn't his thing. If something really existed you, had… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“From time immemorial, some men supposed to deal in one-valued 'eternal verities'. We called such men 'philosophers' or 'meta-physicians'. But they seldom… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
“And further, observing that all this indeterminate substance is in motion, and that no true predication can be made of that which… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Godmind, Sonnet 2101 Come, look into my eyes, you'll smell the soil from Tabriz, chiming with the whirlwind of Konya. Come, peer… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Derrida… labels as ‘metaphysical’ any such thought system which depends on an unassailable foundation, a first principle or unimpeachable ground upon which… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“Life is fundamentally a mental state. We live in a dream world that we create. Whose life is truer, the rational man… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
When philosophers use a word--"knowledge," "being," "object," "I," "proposition," "name"--and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must always ask… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Rainer Maria Rilke greeted and wrestled with the angels of his Duino Elegies in the solitude of a castle surrounded by white… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Here is how A5 and A6 come together: A5 Active Knower states that consciousness contributes features of the mind to experience and… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
“The early Wittgenstein and the logical positivists that he inspired are often thought to have their roots in the philosophical investigations of… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
The more serious poetry of the race has a philosophical structure of thought. It contains beliefs and conceptions in regard to the… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of… — William James Copy Share Image
“Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. The fundamental conceptions of psychology are practically very clear to us,… — William James Copy Share Image
“Our conduct of the ontological investigation in the first and second parts opens up for us at the same time a view… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“As a method however, the *method of ontology* is nothing but the sequence of the steps involved in the approach to Being… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“There are systems upon systems that are incredible but possessed of a pleasing architecture or a certain agreeable sensationalism. The metaphysicians of… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
It's so hard to believe in anything anymore, you know what I mean? It's like, religion, you really can't take it seriously,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“In order to minimize presuppositions, Heidegger starts by examining Dasein in its “average everydayness,” that is, what we are like most of… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
