“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
Many persons entertain a prejudice against mathematical language, arising out of a confusion between the ideas of a mathematical science and an… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
It's a fact that children with cancer have higher cure rates than adults with cancer, and I wonder if the reason is… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
“In Leibniz we can already find the striking observation that *cogitatur ergo est* is no less evident than *cogito ergo sum*. Naturally,… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
“The *second task* consists in distinguishing the mode of knowing operative in ontology as science of Being, and this requires us to… — Martin Heidegger 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
“One of my principal theses is that in every case the nature of a being (contingent as well as essential nature) can,… — Max Scheler 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
Existential psychotherapy is the movement which, although standing on one side on the scientific analysis owed chiefly to the genius of Freud… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“In my mind, I could sense their roots under the soil, creeping in helical tangles of ever-increasing complexity outward and in all… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“The resurrection of the body - what do we really mean by this? ...Did not the mystics and sages of all times… — Alexander Schmemann 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 purpose of this critique of pure speculative reason consists in the attempt to change the old procedure of metaphysics, and to… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is metaphysics. Metaphysics thinks beings as a whole―the world, man, God―with respect to Being, with respect to the belonging together of… — 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
“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
“Human existence can relate to beings only if it holds itself out into the nothing. Going beyond beings occurs in the essence… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“Dasein *is authentically itself* in the primordial individualization of the reticent resoluteness which exacts anxiety of itself. *As something that keeps *silent*,… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
Mystery is an inescapable ingredient of mathematics. Mathematics is full of unanswered questions, which far outnumber known theorems and results. It's the… — Ivars Peterson 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
Some critics thought the ontology and theory of qualities absurd. No one had ever seen these little atoms, and furthermore, how could… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
We think of the number "five" as applying to appropriate groups of any entities whatsoever - to five fishes, five children, five… — Alfred North Whitehead 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 most perfect and satisfactory knowledge is that of perception but this is limited to the absolutely particular, to the individual. The… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Science and philosophy have for centuries been sustained by unquestioning faith in perception. Perception opens a window on to things. This means… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty 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
“We assert now that Being is the proper and sole theme of philosophy. This is not our own invention; it is a… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image