Accepting Quote by Anonymous

Each new ontological theory, propounded in lieu of previous ones shown to be untenable, has been followed by a new criticism leading to a…

— Herbert Spencer

Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?

— Gottfried Leibniz

Why is there something rather than nothing?

— Frank Wilczek

The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

— Alice Munro

I don't know what ontological means... I barely graduated high school, and I have never heard that word in conversation.

— Lou Barlow

An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.

— Madeleine L'Engle

English general and singular terms, identity, quantification, and the whole bag of ontological tricks may be correlated with elements of the native language in…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

There are different interpretations of the problem of universals. I understand it as the problem of giving the truthmakers of propositions to the effect…

— Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

Here is something Category-Theorists like: it is trivial, but not trivially trivial.

— Timothy Gowers

There cannot be a language more universal and more simple, more free from errors and obscurities...more worthy to express the invariable relations of all…

— Joseph Fourier

The variables of quantification, 'something,' 'nothing,' 'everything,' range over our whole ontology, whatever it may be; and we are convicted of a particular ontological…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

Simplicity is the essence of universality.

— Mahatma Gandhi