“Metaphysics, a completely isolated and speculative branch of rational knowledge which is raised above all teachings of experience and rests on concepts… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“It must be *possible* for the *I think* to accompany all my representations: for otherwise something would be represented within me that… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of our mind; the first is to receive representations (receptivity of impressions), the second is… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Complete knowledge of the nature of an analytic function must also include insight into its behavior for imaginary values of the arguments.… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
“In living things, nature springs an ontological surprise in which the world-accident of terrestrial conditions brings to light an entirely new possibility… — Hans Jonas Copy Share Image
“To clarify the existentiality of the Self, we take as our ‘natural’ point of departure Dasein’s everyday interpretation of the Self. In… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
My theory stands as firm as a rock; every arrow directed against it will return quickly to its archer. How do I… — Georg Cantor Copy Share Image
When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“This has nothing to do with realism (even if it explains also realism). A completely real world can be constructed, in which… — Umberto Eco 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
“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
“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
“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
“There are underwater cables that seem to emerge and interweave the various objects drifting and rotating in space. I can imagine their… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“In provisionally characterizing the object which serves as the theme of our investigation (the Being of entities, or the meaning of Being… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“There appears to be a fifth way, that of eminence. According to this I argue that it is incompatible with the idea… — John Duns Scotus Copy Share Image
“We have seen, therefore, that I am not allowed even to *assume*, for the sake of the necessary practical use of my… — Immanuel Kant 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
“Because they are assertions about Being in the light of time properly understood, all ontological propositions are Temporal propositions. It is only… — Martin Heidegger 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
“For every relationship involves two related terms. Sometimes relationships are not real in either term, but arise from the way we think… — Thomas Aquinas 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
Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions. — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Humans create their futures every day of every year; only you can alter your worlds. — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
If, as you teach, the universe has no beginning and no end, why should we? — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
The ultimate philosophical challenge is to reveal the ontology of God. — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
Choose life over death, Niko, when a choice can be made that puts no soul in jeopardy. — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
There's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
It's all the same - no good without evil, no balance...no maat. If we lose one, we lose the other. It's just… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
The line has magnitude in one way, the plane in two ways, and the solid in three ways, and beyond these there… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Although my knowledge grows more and more, nevertheless I do not for that reason believe that it can ever be actually infinite,… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
We call infinite that thing whose limits we have not perceived, and so by that word we do not signify what we… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
