“And further, observing that all this indeterminate substance is in motion, and that no true predication can be made of that which… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“From time immemorial, some men supposed to deal in one-valued 'eternal verities'. We called such men 'philosophers' or 'meta-physicians'. But they seldom… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
“Derrida… labels as ‘metaphysical’ any such thought system which depends on an unassailable foundation, a first principle or unimpeachable ground upon which… — Terry Eagleton 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
“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
“There are systems upon systems that are incredible but possessed of a pleasing architecture or a certain agreeable sensationalism. The metaphysicians of… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“As a method however, the *method of ontology* is nothing but the sequence of the steps involved in the approach to Being… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
It's so hard to believe in anything anymore, you know what I mean? It's like, religion, you really can't take it seriously,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“In order to minimize presuppositions, Heidegger starts by examining Dasein in its “average everydayness,” that is, what we are like most of… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
“Here is how A5 and A6 come together: A5 Active Knower states that consciousness contributes features of the mind to experience and… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
The more serious poetry of the race has a philosophical structure of thought. It contains beliefs and conceptions in regard to the… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
“The early Wittgenstein and the logical positivists that he inspired are often thought to have their roots in the philosophical investigations of… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of… — William James Copy Share Image
“Particularly when it comes to chaos magic, building your own optimal metaphysics becomes more challenging when you have to shoehorn it into… — Gordon White Copy Share Image
“The second project is in the field of metaphysics: with the aim of showing that, in the words of Professor H. M.… — Georges Perec Copy Share Image
“He knew perfectly well (even if he wasn’t inclined to admit it) that the material body had a spiritual aspect. He knew… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
Metaphysics is the study of the most general nature and basic structure of reality, and therefore the concepts of metaphysics, concepts like… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
“What is gained by the transcendence of the object is the identifiability of the object in a plurality of acts and the… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
“It was a wonderful experience. She mistrusted his very slumbers--and she seemed to think I could tell her why! Thus a poor… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The third preliminary problem for every theory of reality is that of the experience of transcendence. We saw in the case of… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
“...Dasein itself--and this means also its Being-in-the-world--gets its ontological understanding of itself in the first instance from those entities which it itself… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“. . . waves of desert heat . . . I must’ve passed out, because when I woke up I was shivering… — Ryan Boudinot Copy Share Image
The so-called Philosophy of India is even more blowsy and senseless than the metaphysics of the West. It is at war with… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Descartes said: "I think, therefore I am." Helvetius wants to say: "I feel, therefore I want to feel pleasantly." I prefer Hobbes… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“[People] cannot live without seeking to describe and explain the universe to themselves. The models they use in doing this must deeply… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“I knew in that moment, we were never meant to surrender our childlike innocence, to trade a world in which we fit… — Christina Carson Copy Share Image
“Do not be afraid of the word 'theory'. Yes, it can sound dauntingly abstract at times, and in the hands of some… — Richard Howells Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if Cupitt himself still uses this term, but it's useful in suggesting that, actually, there are more choices than… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
“The ‘I’ is a bare consciousness, accompanying all concepts. In the ‘I’, ‘nothing more is represented than a transcendental subject of thoughts’.… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“The three greatest metaphysicians who ever existed - Plato, Aristotle and St.Thomas Aquinas - had no system in the idealistic sense of… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share Image
“No matter how you arrive at the awareness and belief that you've lived before and will live again, the most lasting healing… — Lianne Downey Copy Share Image
“Edward had used work and accomplishments throughout his life to keep the misery at bay. He’d endured so much heartache in the… — Steven Decker Copy Share Image
“It is precisely because the principle of the transcendence of the object is completely independent of the existential status of the objects… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
“But how does it come about that while the ‘I think’ gives Kant a genuine phenomenal starting-point, he cannot exploit it ontologically,… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“When my son speaks of playing sports, I've always told him: playing on the team is great, but aspire to be the… — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“We should start using the mind as a tool, he argues, instead of letting the mind use us, which is the normal… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
“Aristotle's later view of the relationship between mathematics and Nature could not have been more different. He wanted to rescue physical science… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
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