“To understand an issue or someone’s argument about anything, one needs to understand the very nature of the issue, which is the… — Reid A. Ashbaucher Copy Share Image
To bracket form and finality out of one's investigations as far as reason allows is a matter of method, but to deny… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What makes humans valuable in the first place? Science can't answer that question because science deals only with things we can measure… — Scott Klusendorf Copy Share Image
“What is critical to being-in-the-world, says Heidegger, is not predicated on what we know about the world but rather on knowing how… — Barbara Bolt Copy Share Image
“Conscious Evolution "Conscious evolution inspires in us a mysterious and humble awareness that we have been created by this awesome process of… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
Science now says 98% of our atoms change out every year. The 2% that stays the same must be part of the… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
It is easy enough to say, I do not believe in God. For God permits all things to be said of Him… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“...any object functioning within the physical laws of any particular universe does not have free will ... In terms of human beings,… — Mark J. Solomon Copy Share Image
Gaston Milhaud, like many of his contemporaries, sought to overthrow empirical positivism by insisting on the fundamental reality of the mind, but… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“To cut a long story short, thus far the contribution of logical philosophy to metaphysics has been entirely negative. The verdict seems… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
At one time, many philosophers held that faultless "laws of thought" were somehow inherent, a priori, in the very nature of mind.… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Often the features metaphysicians are interested in, like causation, time, and essence, involve features that seem so basic or are so generally… — L.A. Paul Copy Share Image
The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without. Inevitably anyone with an independent… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“If a supernatural being is to be exempt from natural law, it cannot possess specific, determinate characteristics. These attributes would impose limits… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
The religion of the short poem, in every age and in every literature, has a single commandment: Less is always more. The… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I am not much of a hand at love songs, you see I mingle metaphysics with even this, but perhaps in this… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“God is not only something metaphysical, but also the physical world, the plants and animals, the mountains and rivers, the air and… — Jeffrey R. Anderson Copy Share Image
“The more I contemplate existence, the less I am attached to the physicalness of my being and more in tune with the… — Natalia Beshqoy Copy Share Image
Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
Racism does not limit itself to biology or economics or psychology or metaphysics; it attacks along many fronts and in many forms,… — Albert Memmi Copy Share Image
A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
“Hey, metaphysics seminar is on the roof. Just take the elevator up and keep walking until you hit the sidewalk. Anything is… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Every wizard needs to build rather than rent a metaphysics. And such a metaphysics needs to not only improve the success of… — Gordon White Copy Share Image
We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel. Man's fall, his need of a new birth, forgiveness… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
While the easiest way in metaphysics is to condemn all metaphysics as nonsense, the easiest way in morals is to elevate the… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Kant can provide, and has provided, a good model for philosophers to think about the relation of metaphysics to science and scientific… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, Professor Cohen, how do I… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The great question in life is the suffering we cause, and the most ingenious metaphysics do not justify the man who has… — Benjamin Constant Copy Share Image
Phenomenology is not a philosophy; it is a philosophical method, a tool. It is like an adjustable spanner that can be used… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
“The Talmud states, "Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly now, love mercy now, walk humbly… — Bridges McCall Copy Share Image
The difference between physics and metaphysics is not that the practitioners of one are smarter than the practitioners of the other. The… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The spirit of non-violence necessarily leads to humility. Non-violence means reliance on God, the rock of ages. If we would seek his… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“It is very important to note that the transcendence of the object is by no means a primitive component necessarily ingredient in… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes’ argument “I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
