In my formative years the people who influenced me most were the Christian existentialists, I mean men like Munier and Kierkegaard and… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
“A similar experiment may be tried in metaphysics as regards the *intuition* of objects. If the intuition had to conform to the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“...being aware that the sacred quality hidden in the experience of eroticism is something impossible for language to reach (this is also… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it. — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics. — Iain McGilchrist 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
“In the pragmatist, streetwise climate of advanced postmodern capitalism, with its scepticism of big pictures and grand narratives, its hard-nosed disenchantment with… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Metaphysics is the clearing house for all fundamental philosophical problems. — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“On the other hand, the moral law, although it gives no such prospect, does provide a fact absolutely inexplicable from any data… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The notion that science does not concern itself with first causes - that it leaves the field to theology or metaphysics, and… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Now these two questions Does there exist a material reality distinct from sensible appearances? and What is the nature of reality? do… — Pierre Duhem Copy Share Image
The God of metaphysics is but an idea. But the God of religion, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sovereign Judge… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Knowledge has the form of a tree, and since metaphysics is the most fundamental one of the theoretical disciplines, it represents the… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
Science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or, the state of science… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Oh Time, you arise with parting! [О, Время, ты от разлуки!]” — The Operator Vladislav Khalyavkin Copy Share Image
“It is precisely because the principle of the transcendence of the object is completely independent of the existential status of the objects… — Max Scheler 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
The metaphysical apologia at least betrayed the injustice of the established order through the incongruence of concept and reality. The impartiality of… — Theodor Adorno 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
“The Clochemerle 1929 was a magnificent wine. Drinking it in small sips, his grace the Archbishop felt himself well disposed towards the… — Gabriel Chevallier 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
“Like the positivists, Wittgenstein was hostile to metaphysics. But he attacked metaphysics not with a blunt instrument like the verification principle, but… — Anthony Kenny Copy Share Image
If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“In fact, the balance wheel which maintains in motion the watch of metaphysics that never runs down, is the clear knowledge that… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
