Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I guess I wouldn't believe in anything if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
No science can be more secure than the unconscious metaphysics which tacitly it presupposes. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Liberty, according to my metaphysics, is an intellectual quality, an attribute that belongs not to fate nor chance. Neither possesses it, neither… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“Origin of man now proved.—Metaphysics must flourish.—He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.” — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
What's impossible to all humanity may be possible to the metaphysics and physiology of angels. — Joseph Glanvill 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
“There was a metal rod inside of Colin. The rod went from his stomach to the middle of his head. It was… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is like being in a dark room and looking for a black cat. Metaphysics is like being in a dark room… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“The purpose of this critique of pure speculative reason consists in the attempt to change the old procedure of metaphysics, and to… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“He is romantic—romantic,” he repeated. “And that is very bad—very bad. . . . Very good, too,” he added. “But is he?”… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Failure to summon forth the courage to risk a nondogmatic and nonevasive stance on such crucial existential matters can also blur our… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“The universe will use any vehicle and any medium to communicate with us. Our job is to be alert and to listen.” — Elaine Seiler Copy Share Image
For some days I quietly worked out in my own mind the metaphysics of Cosmic Unity. The more I thought about it,… — Freeman Dyson 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
“Metaphysics, said the late nineteenth-century idealist philosopher Bradley, is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct; but metaphysics… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
“A quick enlightenment tends to do more harm than good. Wise may easily become unwise.” — Iva Kenaz Copy Share Image
“Ontically, of course, Dasein is not only close to us―even that which is closest: we *are* it, each of us, we ourselves.… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
the senses alone are not implicitly to be depended on. We must correct their evidence by reason, and by considerations, derived from… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Quantum jumping is the process by which a person envisions some desired result or state of being that is different from the… — Cynthia Sue Larson Copy Share Image
Science now says 98% of our atoms change out every year. The 2% that stays the same must be part of the… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
