“By this freedom the will of a rational being, as belonging to the sensuous world, recognizes itself to be, like all other… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Upon the solution of this problem, or upon sufficient proof of the impossibility of synthetical knowledge a priori, depends the existence or… — Immanuel Kant 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
“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
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. — William James Copy Share Image
The knowledge that is suited to our situation and powers, the whole compass of moral, natural, and mathematical science, was neglected by… — Edward Gibbon 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
“He knew perfectly well (even if he wasn’t inclined to admit it) that the material body had a spiritual aspect. He knew… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“But you don’t really mean to say that you couldn’t love me if my name wasn’t Ernest? GWENDOLEN: But your name is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The role of metaphysics in relation to other disciplines, whether philosophical or not and including the natural sciences, is thus a foundational… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
“Can all this just be an accident? Or could there be some alien intelligence behind it?” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Soon we shall discover that the temple of all humanity is nothing less that the Temple of the Living God!" ~ Chapter… — Reverend Dr. Linda De Coff Copy Share Image
“People believe in miracles, precisely because they don’t believe in miracles.” — Syed Buali Gillani 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
If the aim of physical theories is to explain experimental laws, theoretical physics is not an autonomous science; it is subordinate to… — Pierre Duhem Copy Share Image
“The mysterious gear of encounters between beings is the support for the theater of life.” — Paulo Ricardo Zargolin Copy Share Image
You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals… — George Bernard Shaw 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
“What is the motive for this ‘fugitive’ way of saying “I”? It is motivated by Dasein’s falling; for as falling, it *flees*… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“In provisionally characterizing the object which serves as the theme of our investigation (the Being of entities, or the meaning of Being… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
Agnosticism is no excuse for indecision. If anything, it is a catalyst for action; for in shifting concern away from a future… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
In the case of Anathem, most of the research had to do with philosophy and metaphysics. Reading this sort of thing has… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
