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
“That afternoon She listened to the grievances of the dead from two warring nations. Both sides had suffered, both sides had legitimate… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
When the faculties of mind find their poise in truth, all lesser ideas die or disappear through a process of transmutation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have found by experience that man makes his plans to be upset by God, but, at the same time, where the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“In itself a wall on which a panoramic view of a non-existent world is drawn does not change. But for a great… — Victor Pelevin Copy Share Image
“Comrades in the struggle! The position of modern man is not merely lamentable; one might even say that there is no condition,… — Victor Pelevin Copy Share Image
“We must reject entirely the frequently encountered assertion that consciousness is a "primal fact," that one ought not speak of an "origin"… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
It's progress I think, that science has joined philosophy, metaphysics & religion as subjects drunk people argue about in bars. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“What are the units of ontology really that I should be a part of a whole, but not be, in all my… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. It embodies, indeed, something better… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
The usual derivation of the word Metaphysics is not to be sustainedthe science is supposed to take its name from its superiority… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Reality is non-directional, layered, and potential- all things at once and non-real in the sense that real is an unknown, so "real"… — Laren Grey Umphlett Copy Share Image
“Thus with the question of the Being of truth and the necessity of presupposing it, just as with the question of the… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
The neutrality and clarity of an engineering drawing is a better model for teaching about art than all the uncontrollable drivel about… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
The truth of the thoughts that are here set forth seems to me unassailable and definitive. I therefore believe myself to have… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“Metaphysics, a completely isolated and speculative branch of rational knowledge which is raised above all teachings of experience and rests on concepts… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment. "Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals" (1785) — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“I am that I am a Goddess, a God entitled to the deepest and most beautiful sensations offered by Heaven and Earth… — Ramon Ravenswood Copy Share Image
“(On the seeming futility of metaphysics) Why then has nature afflicted our reason with the restless striving for such a path, as… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
It has never been in my power to study anything, mathematics, ethics, metaphysics, gravitation, thermodynamics, optics, chemistry, comparative anatomy, astronomy, psychology, phonetics,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
“In fact, meta- and particle physicists have more in common than one might suppose: both tug, if in slightly different directions, at… — Tim Mackintosh-Smith Copy Share Image
