“That is why I don't believe much in what Mr. Descartes said: "I think, therefore I am." I think, therefore I'm lost… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
The bible is a source of great inspiration to me. It is a textbook of metaphysics. Within the bible are keys to… — John Fante Copy Share Image
“I am not much for philosophy, but that old Descartes, he got me thinking. And therefore being. Anyone? Anyone? Cogito ergo sum… — John Green Copy Share Image
My studies in Speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man running in… — Benjamin De Casseres Copy Share Image
The usual derivation of the word Metaphysics is not to be sustainedthe science is supposed to take its name from its superiority… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. For many are the… — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
Metaphysics notwithstanding, I also insert myself in my fictions for no loftier purpose than to give me pleasure: to see myself performing… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
“In the same way, any ethical system which aspires to be true ethics and to bear a normative and teleological character, not… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
Epistemology now flourishes with various complementary approaches. This includes formal epistemology, experimental philosophy, cognitive science and psychology, including relevant brain science, and… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
“But then one voice arose from the babbling clamor to silence them all. It was a voice he hadn’t heard in a… — Casey Fisher Copy Share Image
“Among the objections to the reality of objects of sense, there is one which is derived from the apparent difference between matter… — Betrand Russell Copy Share Image
“In fact, meta- and particle physicists have more in common than one might suppose: both tug, if in slightly different directions, at… — Tim Mackintosh-Smith Copy Share Image
“These thinkers establish the presence of human activity (A5) in experience in other ways than Kant’s strategy of positing a difference between… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
“It will be seen how there can be the idea of a special science, the *critique of pure reason* as it may… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Dasein is a being that does not simply occur among other beings. Rather it is ontically distinguished by the fact that in… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Breathless and unharmed, we emerge from the mazes of metaphysics and psychology where man and the soul are playing hide-and-seek. — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
Lully's machine, Mill's fear and Lasswitz's chaotic library can be the subject of jokes, but they exaggerate a propensity which is common:… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Everyone's life changes when they meet their Obi-Wan & their Yoda, or their Morpheus & their Oracle; those who help remove the veil.” — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
If our previous analyses are correct, they all point to the same conclusion, that metaphysical adventures are doomed to fail when their… — Etienne Gilson Copy Share Image
Science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or, the state of science… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“If we accept that Metaphysics studies the origin and structure of the world from beyond the natural or the physical to the… — Tasha Heart Copy Share Image
Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“By banishing metaphysics, materialism has no longer an ethical system, knows no longer the distinction between good and evil, possesses no moral… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
Madame de Staël thought it was pride in mankind to endeavour to penetrate the secret of the universe; and speaking of the… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
An ideal and flawless freedom, "complete freedom", enabling without disabling, is I believe an oxymoron in metaphysics as much as it is… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
“Indeed neither life nor science bothers about "essences"-they leave "essences" to metaphysics, which is neither life nor science.” — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
“Physical reality does not require that we be pleased with its mechanism; we must see the implications of a theory for what… — Kevin Michel Copy Share Image
Those who think that metaphysics is just misunderstood grammar will react to my giving metaphysics some place or another in the system… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
The God of metaphysics is but an idea. But the God of religion, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sovereign Judge… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
“Even a great philosophical idea when mixed with mysticism, turns into a dangerous weapon that becomes an impediment in the path of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Knowledge has the form of a tree, and since metaphysics is the most fundamental one of the theoretical disciplines, it represents the… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
Bergman was the first to bring metaphysics - religion, death, existentialism - to the screen. ... But the best of Bergman is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Perhaps dandruff is the excreta of the mind — the quantity of this material being directly proportional to the amount of reading… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“The great rationalist Descartes said, “I think, therefore I am.” The religious mystic the Buddha said, “I think, therefore I am not.”… — Thomas Stark Copy Share Image
Hinduism is wholly free from the strange obsession of some faiths that the acceptance of a particular religious metaphysics is necessary for… — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Copy Share Image
“To deny the necessity or value of metaphysics is to assert a metaphysical principle, just as to say a religion must be… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so and logic only the art… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
