Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck. — Immanuel Kant 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
“With his night-cap and his night-shirt tatters, He botches up the loop-holes in the structure of the world.” — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Human society is a ceaseless growth, and unfoldment in terms of spirituality. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
To create a good philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds. — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Thus "phenomenology" means αποφαινεσθαι τα φαινομενα -- to let that which shows itself be seen from itself in the very way in… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
There's a power that brings us to things, and there's a power that lets us move away from things, from people, places,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“I am not much for philosophy, but that old Descartes, he got me thinking. And therefore being. Anyone? Anyone? Cogito ergo sum… — John Green Copy Share Image
My studies in Speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man running in… — Benjamin De Casseres Copy Share Image
The bible is a source of great inspiration to me. It is a textbook of metaphysics. Within the bible are keys to… — John Fante Copy Share Image
“That is why I don't believe much in what Mr. Descartes said: "I think, therefore I am." I think, therefore I'm lost… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
I read a book in the late 1990s called The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, by Erich Fromm, and it had a profound… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
“We are taught to fear the unknown, but what if the unknown is whatever we want it to be? What if the… — Natalia Beshqoy Copy Share Image
“The conscious events that we are aware of are physical events in their own right, just as much as the brain events… — William Hirstein Copy Share Image
When the Reformation became established, one of the things that was a question between Catholicism and the Reformation traditions was whether there… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Thus metaphysics and mathematics are, among all the sciences that belong to reason, those in which imagination has the greatest role. I… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
Narrative and metaphysics alike become flimsy and frivolous if they venture too far from the home base of all humanism - the… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“One of the ways that Heidegger radicalizes Kant is by showing the “subject” to be active in multiple ways rather than limiting… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
“Questions are not happenstance thoughts nor are questions common problems of today which one picks up from hearsay and booklearning and decks… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. Some of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Our mania for rational explanations obviously has its roots in our fear of metaphysics, for the two were always hostile brothers. Hence,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“A biblical metaphysics implies a biblical theory of knowledge and a biblical ethic.” — Henry R. Van Til Copy Share Image
To create a healthy philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Descartes said, "I think, therefore I am." I say, "I do not think, that is why I exist." — Taisen Deshimaru Copy Share Image
The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Abstraction is the condition of the science of metaphysics, but in no way is its content.” — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“The true life is absent.' But we are in the world. Metaphysics arises and is maintained in this alibi.” — Emmanuel Lévinas Copy Share Image
“Can all this just be an accident? Or could there be some alien intelligence behind it?” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. — Walt Whitman 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
The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without. — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct. — F. H. Bradley Copy Share Image
Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. — William James Copy Share Image
“What is this slow blue dream of living, and this fevered death by dreaming?” — Aberjhani 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
