“The early Wittgenstein and the logical positivists that he inspired are often thought to have their roots in the philosophical investigations of… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
“Here is how A5 and A6 come together: A5 Active Knower states that consciousness contributes features of the mind to experience and… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of… — William James Copy Share Image
“Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. The fundamental conceptions of psychology are practically very clear to us,… — William James Copy Share Image
“Our conduct of the ontological investigation in the first and second parts opens up for us at the same time a view… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
It's so hard to believe in anything anymore, you know what I mean? It's like, religion, you really can't take it seriously,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“As a method however, the *method of ontology* is nothing but the sequence of the steps involved in the approach to Being… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“There are systems upon systems that are incredible but possessed of a pleasing architecture or a certain agreeable sensationalism. The metaphysicians of… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“And further, observing that all this indeterminate substance is in motion, and that no true predication can be made of that which… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Godmind, Sonnet 2101 Come, look into my eyes, you'll smell the soil from Tabriz, chiming with the whirlwind of Konya. Come, peer… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Derrida… labels as ‘metaphysical’ any such thought system which depends on an unassailable foundation, a first principle or unimpeachable ground upon which… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“Life is fundamentally a mental state. We live in a dream world that we create. Whose life is truer, the rational man… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Rainer Maria Rilke greeted and wrestled with the angels of his Duino Elegies in the solitude of a castle surrounded by white… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this… — Aristotle 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
And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Oh Time, you arise with parting! [О, Время, ты от разлуки!]” — The Operator Vladislav Khalyavkin Copy Share Image
This characteristic of Dasein's being this "that it is" is veiled in its "whence" and "whither. — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“What is more precious: a thousand answers derived from one question? Or, one answer…from a thousand questions?” — G. F. Smith Copy Share Image
Love created, thought, thought created energy, energy created light and light created the universe. — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
No science can be more secure than the unconscious metaphysics which tacitly it presupposes. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it. — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us. — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life; otherwise forget it. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Dostoevsky - is not a realist as an artist, he is an experimentator, a creator of an experimential metaphysics of human nature. — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
“Knowlede is power and Absolute Knowledge is Absolute Power or the Power of Truth, which is constantly shaping events and circumstances to… — Matthew A. Petti Copy Share Image
poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science, or complement of sciences, exclusively occupied with mind. — Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet Copy Share Image
But to proceed in this reconciling project with regard to the question of liberty and necessity; the most contentious question of metaphysics,… — David Hume 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
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
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