“On a basic level- everything we say- essentially anything that comes out of our mouths is a rationalisation in some form or… — Mohadesa Najumi Copy Share Image
Utopia would seem to offer the spectacle of one of those rare phenomena whose concept is indistinguishable from its reality, whose ontology… — Fredric Jameson 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
“This cause, therefore, of all existing things cannot be any one of them.” — Plotinus Copy Share Image
“Being, as the basic theme of philosophy, is no class or genus of entities; yet it pertains to every entity. Its 'universality'… — Martin Heidegger 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
Brilliant. The Ontology Project is a post-graduate course in card magic. — Jim Steinmeyer 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
Since I found that one could make a case shadow from a three-dimensional thing, any object whatsoever - just as the projecting… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
The world is too big and too intricate to conform to our ideas of what it should be like... Just because we… — Moby Copy Share Image
“I ascended, I ascended, I dreamt, I thought,—but everything oppressed me. A sick one did I resemble, whom bad torture wearieth, and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The type of nothing from which something can arise is truly something.” — John K. Brown Copy Share Image
My opinion of mankind is founded upon the mournful fact that, so far as I can see, they find within themselves the… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not… — Christopher Hitchens 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
In my paper the fact the XY was not equal to YX was very disagreeable to me. I felt this was the… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
Our acceptance of an ontology is, I think, similar in principle to our acceptance of a scientific theory, say a system of… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
So well do I love you, I go to my god singing your praises. When I meet my father, I will tell… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
The increased abstraction in mathematics that took place during the early part of this century was paralleled by a similar trend in… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
The slicing technique from Flatland still remains one of the most powerful tools for dealing with aggregates in higher dimensions. — Thomas Banchoff Copy Share Image
The universe forgives those who give until their hearts are aching and their spirits weak, and finds a way to renew all… — Janet Morris 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
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
