“Both ignorance and the old metaphysics tend to produce these undesirable nervous effects of reversed order and so non-survival evaluation. If we… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
“There would be no history as we know it, no religion, no metaphysics or aesthetics as we have lived them, without an… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Thus metaphysics and mathematics are, among all the sciences that belong to reason, those in which imagination has the greatest role. I… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers. Each of us emerges… — Bryan Magee Copy Share Image
“To deny the necessity or value of metaphysics is to assert a metaphysical principle, just as to say a religion must be… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“A metaphysical understanding of what the world is, how it works, and how it all fits together, in general and abstract terms,… — Stephen Mumford Copy Share Image
Perhaps dandruff is the excreta of the mind — the quantity of this material being directly proportional to the amount of reading… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“On the other hand, it is also characteristic of the state of philosophical inquiry today and has been for a long time… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“Patriarchy, reformed or unreformed, is patriarchy still: its worst abuses purged or foresworn, it might actually be more stable and secure than… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
When the Reformation became established, one of the things that was a question between Catholicism and the Reformation traditions was whether there… — Marilynne Robinson 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
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
“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
“Metaphysics thinks about beings as beings. Wherever the question is asked what beings are, beings as such are in sight. Metaphysical representation… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“The scientific gauge is quantity: space, size, and strength of forces can all be reckoned numerically. The comparable "yardstick" in the traditional… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
“From the study of the development of human intelligence, in all directions, and through all times, the discovery arises of a great… — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
