Metaphysics Quote by Maurice Merleau-Ponty

The phenomenological world is not the bringing to explicit expression of a pre-existing being, but the laying down of being. Philosophy is not the…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“The criers of the Mysteries speak again, bidding all men welcome to the House of Light. The great institution of materiality has failed. The…

— Manly P. Hall

The philosopher creates, he doesn't reflect.

— Gilles Deleuze

In the isolation of his clear, cold intellect, the sceptic abides in a glacial and spectral universe. No glow from the affections lights up…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“These are but a few specimens of philosophy which is no longer conscious of its own intrinsic worth, and which sees no higher mission…

— Fulton J. Sheen

“Sitting there on the heather, on our planetary grain, I shrank from the abysses that opened up on every side, and in the future.…

— Olaf Stapledon

“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

“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

Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us…

— Samuel Johnson

“That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes…

— Bertrand Russell

“Eventually you ascend the stairs to the street. You think of Plato's pilgrims climbing out of the cave, from the shadow world of appearances…

— Jay McInerney

“Man is physically as well as metaphysically a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson