Humans create their futures every day of every year; only you can alter your worlds. — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth! — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions. — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Brilliant. The Ontology Project is a post-graduate course in card magic. — Jim Steinmeyer Copy Share Image
“The type of nothing from which something can arise is truly something.” — John K. Brown Copy Share Image
“Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.” — Slavoj Žižek 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
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
“She had not been the sort to have cared about the naming of things that existed well without it…” — Thomm Quackenbush 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
I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift… — Eugene Wigner Copy Share Image
Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Bohm's 'ontological interpretation' was so called because of the bad rap the word 'ontology' has had in our correlationist age. As a… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
All sentences of the type 'deconstruction is X' or 'deconstruction is not X', a priori miss the point, which is to say… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
Generally speaking there is no irreducible taste or inclination. They all represent a certain appropriative choice of being. It is up to… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Today the major reason for our interest in Flatland is that for the first time we can achieve some of the dreams… — Thomas Banchoff 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
The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! We reach forth and strain every… — Maria Mitchell 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
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
The actual infinite arises in three contexts: first when it is realized in the most complete form, in a fully independent otherworldly… — Georg Cantor Copy Share Image
“A similar experiment may be tried in metaphysics as regards the *intuition* of objects. If the intuition had to conform to the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“What is the motive for this ‘fugitive’ way of saying “I”? It is motivated by Dasein’s falling; for as falling, it *flees*… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“But—let me tell you my cat joke. It's very short and simple. A hostess is giving a dinner party and she's got… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Only after the concept of knowledge has been based on an ontological relation [*Seinsverhältnis*] can we work out the particular kind of… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
Do you think it's possible that things that seem to be discrete in three dimensions might all be part of the same… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
You can't. Do you hear me? You think you've figured something out? You run over here so pleased with yourself because you… — David Auburn Copy Share Image
But as the work proceeded I was continually reminded of the fable about the elephant and the tortoise. Having constructed an elephant… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“We also find *physics*, in the widest sense of the word, concerned with the explanation of phenomena in the world; but it… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
![“Only after the concept of knowledge has been based on an ontological relation [*Seinsverhältnis*] can we work out the particular kind of being from which the principle of immanence-to-consciousness (the starting point of Idealism and Critical Realism) mistakenly proceeds as though from a primary…” quote by Max Scheler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/65c/max-scheler-21013_epistemology_only-after-the-concept-of-knowledge-has_492525.jpg)
