Age Quote by Timothy Morton

There's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology.

— Terence McKenna

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

— Lou Barlow

I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.

— Madeleine L'Engle

“What is necessary is that epistemology, instead of being the pre-condition for ontology, should grow in it and with it, being at the same…

— Étienne Gilson

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

There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open…

— Bridget Riley

“In provisionally characterizing the object which serves as the theme of our investigation (the Being of entities, or the meaning of Being in general),…

— Martin Heidegger

“The head spins in theoretical disarray; no explanatory model suggests itself; bizarre ontologies loom. There is a feeling of intense confusion, but no clear…

— Colin McGinn

In many cases, contemporary materialisms map uncannily well onto Pre-Socratic ideas such that instead of Anaximander, we have the physicist David Bohm and his…

— Timothy Morton

“As a method however, the *method of ontology* is nothing but the sequence of the steps involved in the approach to Being as such…

— Martin Heidegger

Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didnt: It was basically a semantics…

— Talulah Riley

Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics…

— Talulah Riley