Poetry a riprap on the slick rock of metaphysics

“Heidegger connects the linchpin of the Kantian Paradigm—A5 Active Knower, that is, the idea that the subject organizes experience—to what he considers to be…

— Lee Braver

“Sentinels of trees breathe life into bodies of earthly flesh As their mighty arms reach to the stars we join in their quest for…

— Ramon Ravenswood

Don't live by my words, don't die by them, chew them slowly digest them, and smile if they give nourishment to your soul.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

“The ultimate aim of reality is to become science fiction!”

— Eli Of Kittim

The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go into science,…

— Dan Brown

“Easter blessings All life’s sacrifices like autumn leaves awaken our senses and power to love and be whole Our Mother Earth, Our Father Sky…

— Ramon Ravenswood

And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth…

— David Hume

“The conscious events that we are aware of are physical events in their own right, just as much as the brain events observed in…

— William Hirstein

I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in the Potter's…

— Anonymous

Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself I have also erred; when I see a lustful man I say to myself,…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Kantian ethical theory distinguishes three levels: First, that of a fundamental principle (the categorical imperative, formulated in three main ways in Kant's Groundwork); second,…

— Allen W. Wood

The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, Professor Cohen, how do I know that…

— Saul Bellow

“Always beware of turning religion into metaphysics: Morality is its essence.”

— Voltaire

“The second project is in the field of metaphysics: with the aim of showing that, in the words of Professor H. M. Tooten, “evolution…

— Georges Perec

Metaphysics attempts to discover the ultimate nature of reality, and in this sense, the innerspace of science fiction is metaphysical fiction.

— Kate Wilhelm