Ontological Quotes

25 quotes by 25 authors

Body', 'soul', and 'spirit' may designate phenomenal domains which can be detached as themes for definite investigations; within certain limits their ontological indefiniteness may not… — Martin Heidegger
Radical constructivism, thus, is radical because it breaks with convention and develops a theory of knowledge in which knowledge does not reflect an 'objective' ontological… — Paul Watzlawick
Great God in Boots! â€“ the ontological argument is sound! — Bertrand Russell
Mankind occurs as male or female, as something or nothing. Woman has no share in ontological reality, no relation to the thing-in-itself, which, in the… — Otto Weininger
Science asks no questions about the ontological pedigree or a priori character of a theory, but is content to judge it by its performance; and… — Chauncey Wright
Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher. — Antonio Tabucchi
Classical philosophical theism maintained the ontological distinction between God and creative world that is necessary for any genuine theism by conceiving them to be of… — Arthur Peacocke
Amazing fine tuning occurs in the laws that make this complexity possible. Realization of the complexity of what is accomplished makes it very difficult not… — George F. R. Ellis
The genius of culture is to create an ontological system so compelling that what is inside and outside of a person are viewed as of… — Richard Shweder
The non-commutativity of the underlying process produces an ontological complementarity. This must be contrasted to Bohr's epistemological complementarity. — Basil Hiley
Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons. — Peter Kreeft
Art matters. It is not simply a leisure activity for the privileged or a hobby for the eccentric. It is a practical good for the… — Michael Gungor
Ontological questions are generally beside the point, hardly more than a form of harassment. — Noam Chomsky
There is also an underlying, less specific fear - what some might call an ontological or existential anxiety - that shrouds our days and seeps… — Jesse Browner
A lifestyle involves a cluster of habits and orientations, and hence has a certain unity - important to a continuing sense of ontological security -… — Anthony Giddens
Man's being is made of such strange stuff as to be partly akin to nature and partly not, at once natural and extranatural, a kind… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Talk can neither be verified nor falsified in any rigorous sense. This is an open secret which hermeneutics and aesthetics, from Aristotle to Croce, have… — George Steiner
From now on, I'm opting for ontological terrorism. — Grant Morrison
I emphasize in it [my Orientalism] accortdingly that neither the term Orient nor the concept of the West has any ontological stability; each is made… — Edward Said
A curious thing about the ontological problem is its simplicity. It can be put into three Anglo-Saxon monosyllables: 'What is there?' It can be answered,… — Willard Van Orman Quine

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