Art Quote by Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“Being, as the basic theme of philosophy, is no class or genus of entities; yet it pertains to every entity. Its 'universality' is to…

— Martin Heidegger

“We assert now that Being is the proper and sole theme of philosophy. This is not our own invention; it is a way of…

— Martin Heidegger

Phenomenology is not a philosophy; it is a philosophical method, a tool. It is like an adjustable spanner that can be used for dismantling…

— Colin Wilson

“Existentialism “every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind,” we have entered the familiar Wordsworthian Romantic territory in which nature is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In philosophy an individual is becoming himself.

— Bernard Lonergan

Philosophy... is the creative perception by the spirit of the meaning of human existence.

— Nikolai Berdyaev

“Philosophy is metaphysics. Metaphysics thinks beings as a whole―the world, man, God―with respect to Being, with respect to the belonging together of beings in…

— Martin Heidegger

Philosophy is the art of living.

— Plutarch

“the illusion is encouraged that philosophy is an irrelevant, abstract subject - part of the decoration of a cultured life perhaps, but unnecessary in…

— Anonymous

Philosopher is becoming God in the process called life.

— Kedar Joshi

“[T]he creation out of nothing is no object of philosophy; … for it cuts away the root of all speculation, presents no grappling point…

— Ludwig Feuerbach

The philosophical I is not the human being, not the human body or the human soul with the psychological properties, but the metaphysical subject,…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein