The universe forgives those who give until their hearts are aching and their spirits weak, and finds a way to renew all… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
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The world is too big and too intricate to conform to our ideas of what it should be like... Just because we… — Moby Copy Share Image
You can't. Do you hear me? You think you've figured something out? You run over here so pleased with yourself because you… — David Auburn Copy Share Image
But as the work proceeded I was continually reminded of the fable about the elephant and the tortoise. Having constructed an elephant… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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“The scientific gauge is quantity: space, size, and strength of forces can all be reckoned numerically. The comparable "yardstick" in the traditional… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
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“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
“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
“Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of our mind; the first is to receive representations (receptivity of impressions), the second is… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“This ground itself needs to be properly accounted for by that for which it accounts, that is, by the causation through the… — Martin Heidegger 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
Complete knowledge of the nature of an analytic function must also include insight into its behavior for imaginary values of the arguments.… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
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“In living things, nature springs an ontological surprise in which the world-accident of terrestrial conditions brings to light an entirely new possibility… — Hans Jonas 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
“He may actually have been existing in the past and approximating a conceivable future, which brought even the assumption of his immediate… — Ashim Shanker 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
Some critics thought the ontology and theory of qualities absurd. No one had ever seen these little atoms, and furthermore, how could… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
We think of the number "five" as applying to appropriate groups of any entities whatsoever - to five fishes, five children, five… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
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My theory stands as firm as a rock; every arrow directed against it will return quickly to its archer. How do I… — Georg Cantor Copy Share Image
When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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“This has nothing to do with realism (even if it explains also realism). A completely real world can be constructed, in which… — Umberto Eco 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
Mystery is an inescapable ingredient of mathematics. Mathematics is full of unanswered questions, which far outnumber known theorems and results. It's the… — Ivars Peterson Copy Share Image
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“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
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“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
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