Those who take knowledge to be a whole zoo of sub-disciplines will react to my giving metaphysics a privileged position in that… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
My views as an individual ought not to be confused with my views as a scientist - the minute you try to… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
“The question what presuppositions underlie the 'physics' or natural science of a certain people at a certain time is a purely historical… — R.G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
“Attitude is a state of mind that results in an action taken or an emotion displayed. Attitude, in the end, is a… — Reid A. Ashbaucher 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
“The great rationalist Descartes said, “I think, therefore I am.” The religious mystic the Buddha said, “I think, therefore I am not.”… — Thomas Stark Copy Share Image
Hinduism is wholly free from the strange obsession of some faiths that the acceptance of a particular religious metaphysics is necessary for… — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Copy Share Image
Bergman was the first to bring metaphysics - religion, death, existentialism - to the screen. ... But the best of Bergman is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But if one decides to start with Descartes and finish with Aristotle, and to employ an idealist method while shamelessly making use… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share Image
Metaphysics is the study of how to shift the self. How to get outside the self-reflection and to just gaze with awe… — Frederick Lenz 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
My personal, metaphysical belief is Vedanta, which is that ultimately there is a singular consciousness. It's like a Hindu metaphysics, that basically… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
“Media are really nothing more than extensions of us. It is we, not the media, who are metaphysical. Metaphysics is part and… — Peter K. Fallon Copy Share Image
“Inevitably it follows that anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes an authority or established convention': a… — Nicholas Tharcher Copy Share Image
“You whom my body longs for, where are you? In the stars, in the river, over the rainbow? Perhaps you hide in… — Ramon Ravenswood Copy Share Image
“Curiosity is everywhere and nowhere. This mode of Being-in-the-world reveals a new kind of Being of everyday Dasein―a kind in which Dasein… — Martin Heidegger 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
God will not take shelter behind a jugglery of logic or metaphysics. He is neither a schoolman nor theologian, but our Father… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so and logic only the art… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
Agnosticism is no excuse for indecision. If anything, it is a catalyst for action; for in shifting concern away from a future… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Guerrilla ontology The basic technique of all my books . Ontology is the study of being; the guerrilla approach is to so… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“The person who wishes to attain human perfection should study logic first, next mathematics, then physics, and, lastly, metaphysics.” — Maimonides Copy Share Image
“The storms inside uncoil into sky held calm by far seeing eyes Memories dressed in the translucent trickery of the mind, so… — Tamara Rendell Copy Share Image
“...no thought, if it be non-mathematical in spirit, can be trusted, and, although mathematicians sometimes make mistakes, the spirit of mathematics is… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask-half our great theological… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“For one to define and understand the nature of the universe, one must first understand the nature of the force behind its… — Reid A. Ashbaucher Copy Share Image
“At one moment, his eyes sparkled in the light and in the next they were enshrouded in shadow. What connected those bands… — Ashim Shanker 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
“God structures his authority based on how he operates internally—that is, how each member of the trinity sees and interacts with each… — Reid A. Ashbaucher Copy Share Image
“if being is many, it must be both like and unlike, and this is impossible, for neither can the like be unlike,… — Zeno Copy Share Image
“Choice, is what presents us with a multitude of paths, because choice creates a flow of electrons through the brain in a… — Kevin Michel Copy Share Image
“Soon we shall discover that the temple of all humanity is nothing less that the Temple of the Living God!" ~ Chapter… — Reverend Dr. Linda De Coff Copy Share Image
“In various ways, methods of approaching the mathematician's ideal were sought, and the resulting suggestions were the source of much that was… — Bertrand Russell 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
“Metanarratives give meaning to individual events, tying them together in the broadest possible fashion. They help structure all of life around a… — Heath White Copy Share Image
“The more I contemplate existence, the less I am attached to the physicalness of my being and more in tune with the… — Natalia Beshqoy Copy Share Image
The quality of the human that precludes identifying the individual with the class is 'metaphysical' and has no place in empiricist epistemology.… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity. — Maimonides Copy Share Image
