“They seek neither truth nor likelihood; they seek astonishment. They think metaphysics is a branch of the literature of fantasy” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“To know what questions may reasonably be asked is already a great and necessary proof of sagacity and insight. For if a… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Science offers the boldest metaphysics of the age. It is a thoroughly human construct, driven by the faith that if we dream,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I was trying to run something to ground that had come to my attention when I was working on the Baroque Cycle.… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“In consequence of the inevitably scattered and fragmentary nature of our thinking, which has been mentioned, and of the mixing together of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Everything 'happens'. People can 'do' nothing. From the time we are born to the time we die things happen, happen, happen, and we think… — P.D. Ouspensky 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
“Ought not a Minister to have, First, a good understanding, a clear apprehension, a sound judgment, and a capacity of reasoning with… — J.P. Moreland Copy Share Image
Perhaps - and this goes for the Kyoto School too - one of these insights is that nothingness and unknowing don't have… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
My aim is to be understood by everyone. I reject the 'depth' that people demand nowadays, into which you can never descend… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
“Having grown up knowing the formerly-mentioned historical figures are part of my family lineage, I was interested to learn that at least… — Hope Bradford Copy Share Image
The question whether atoms exist or not... belongs rather to metaphysics. In chemistry we have only to decide whether the assumption of… — August Kekule Copy Share Image
Knapsack of the Metaphysicians.- Those who boast so mightily of the scientificality of their metaphysics should receive no answer; it is enough… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The *second task* consists in distinguishing the mode of knowing operative in ontology as science of Being, and this requires us to… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description… — Fritjof Capra 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
“Among the objections to the reality of objects of sense, there is one which is derived from the apparent difference between matter… — Betrand Russell Copy Share Image
“But then one voice arose from the babbling clamor to silence them all. It was a voice he hadn’t heard in a… — Casey Fisher Copy Share Image
Epistemology now flourishes with various complementary approaches. This includes formal epistemology, experimental philosophy, cognitive science and psychology, including relevant brain science, and… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
Poetry is essentially the antithesis of Metaphysics: Metaphysics purge the mind of the senses and cultivate the disembodiment of the spiritual; Poetry… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“Derrida embraces the Heideggerian Paradigm’s new version of R5 Passive Knower. According to this view, we are not the autonomous source of… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
“Papuan ancestors never begged for survival. They engineered it. They did not ask the world for permission to exist; they organised their… — Yamin Kogoya Copy Share Image
“Time makes us grow old, but it also gives us the day and the night...Lying is a bad thing. It makes you… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“We are often given pills or fluids to help remedy illness, yet little has been taught to us about the power of… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“One of my principal theses is that in every case the nature of a being (contingent as well as essential nature) can,… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
“Voltaire exclaims: ‘Oh metaphysics! We have come precisely as far as in the time of the early Druids.’c But what other science… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Dasein is a being that does not simply occur among other beings. Rather it is ontically distinguished by the fact that in… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“It will be seen how there can be the idea of a special science, the *critique of pure reason* as it may… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“These thinkers establish the presence of human activity (A5) in experience in other ways than Kant’s strategy of positing a difference between… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
“God is triune, and all reality is structured in terms of Him. A brief definition of the Trinity might be this: One… — David Chilton Copy Share Image
Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is strictly certain. It might… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
One has to recognize that science is not metaphysics, and certainly not mysticism; it can never bring us the illumination and the… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
When I began to think deeply about the metaphysics of love I talked with everyone around me about it. I talked to… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The metaphysics of substance. The strange feeling which comes over us when we sense: this is skin - this is bone -… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
“When one commits to a spiritual teacher, one automatically benefits from the energetic field of that teacher. All one has to do… — Donna Goddard 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… at the root of all other sciences, which indeed presuppose it. It has been abandoned by the modern mind, which… — Dom Eugene Boylan 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
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
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