Metaphysics Quotes

Origin of man now proved.—Metaphysics must flourish.—He who understands baboon would do more towards...

Once I knew, then I forgot. It was as if I had fallen asleep in a field only to discover at waking t...

That afternoon She listened to the grievances of the dead from two warring nations. Both sides had s...

Hey, metaphysics seminar is on the roof. Just take the elevator up and keep walking until you hit th...

As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. For many are the ...

A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the e...

Ordinary moments make the life. This is what she knew to be trustworthy and this is what I learned, ...

Life is not a fairground, but a school. -- Franz Bardon

It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disp...

To deny the necessity or value of metaphysics is to assert a metaphysical principle, just as to say ...

Can all this just be an accident? Or could there be some alien intelligence behind it?

Metaphysics in philosophy is, of course, supposed to characterize what is real - literally real. The...

For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or th...

...being aware that the sacred quality hidden in the experience of eroticism is something impossible...

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian i...

With his night-cap and his night-shirt tatters,He botches up the loop-holes in the structure of the ...

It must be *possible* for the *I think* to accompany all my representations: for otherwise something...

A similar experiment may be tried in metaphysics as regards the *intuition* of objects. If the intui...

Metaphysics, a completely isolated and speculative branch of rational knowledge which is raised abov...

This experiment succeeds as hoped and promises to metaphysics, in its first part, which deals with t...

It is true, no doubt, that this principle of the necessary unity of apperception is itself an identi...

On the other hand, the moral law, although it gives no such prospect, does provide a fact absolutely...

By this freedom the will of a rational being, as belonging to the sensuous world, recognizes itself ...

We have seen, therefore, that I am not allowed even to *assume*, for the sake of the necessary pract...

Our critique is not opposed to the *dogmatic procedure* of reason in its pure knowledge as science (...

The purpose of this critique of pure speculative reason consists in the attempt to change the old pr...

To know what questions may reasonably be asked is already a great and necessary proof of sagacity an...

Metaphysics... is nothing but the inventory of all we possess through pure reason, ordered systemati...

(On the seeming futility of metaphysics) Why then has nature afflicted our reason with the restless ...

It will be seen how there can be the idea of a special science, the *critique of pure reason* as it ...

High towers, and metaphysically-great men resembling them, round both of which there is commonly muc...

God who gave Animals self motion beyond our understanding is without doubt able to implant other pri...

...the scientific attitude implies what I call the postulate of objectivity—that is to say, the fund...

In periods when shallow speculation is rife, one might think that metaphysics would shine forth, at ...

One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes’ argument “I think therefore I am.}, si...

The metaphysicians of Tlön are not looking for truth, nor even for an approximation of it; they are ...

It was a wonderful experience. She mistrusted his very slumbers--and she seemed to think I could tel...

He is romantic—romantic,” he repeated. “And that is very bad—very bad. . . . Very good, too,” he add...

Metaphysical speculation is independent of the physical validity of the Big Bang itself and is irrel...

Jo knew nothing about philosophy or metaphysics of any sort, but a curious excitement, half pleasura...

476. Children do not learn that books exist, that armchairs exist, etc.,etc. - they learn to fetch b...

The person who wishes to attain human perfection should study logic first, next mathematics, then ph...

But how does it come about that while the ‘I think’ gives Kant a genuine phenomenal starting-point, ...

Being, as the basic theme of philosophy, is no class or genus of entities; yet it pertains to every ...

The ‘I’ is a bare consciousness, accompanying all concepts. In the ‘I’, ‘nothing more is represented...

Ontically, of course, Dasein is not only close to us―even that which is closest: we *are* it, each o...

Because they are assertions about Being in the light of time properly understood, all ontological pr...

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

On the other hand, it is also characteristic of the state of philosophical inquiry today and has bee...

The *second task* consists in distinguishing the mode of knowing operative in ontology as science of...

Curiosity is everywhere and nowhere. This mode of Being-in-the-world reveals a new kind of Being of ...

Our conduct of the ontological investigation in the first and second parts opens up for us at the sa...

Thus with the question of the Being of truth and the necessity of presupposing it, just as with the ...

To clarify the existentiality of the Self, we take as our ‘natural’ point of departure Dasein’s ever...

What is the motive for this ‘fugitive’ way of saying “I”? It is motivated by Dasein’s falling; for a...

In provisionally characterizing the object which serves as the theme of our investigation (the Being...

Dasein *is authentically itself* in the primordial individualization of the reticent resoluteness wh...

As a method however, the *method of ontology* is nothing but the sequence of the steps involved in t...

Metaphysics thinks about beings as beings. Wherever the question is asked what beings are, beings as...

Philosophy is metaphysics. Metaphysics thinks beings as a whole―the world, man, God―with respect to ...

Human existence can relate to beings only if it holds itself out into the nothing. Going beyond bein...

Human existence can relate to beings only if it holds itself out into the nothing. Going beyond bein...

The term 'Being' does not define that realm of entities which is uppermost when these are articulate...

But what is great can only begin great.

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

The third preliminary problem for every theory of reality is that of the experience of transcendence...

It is very important to note that the transcendence of the object is by no means a primitive compone...

What is gained by the transcendence of the object is the identifiability of the object in a pluralit...

Only after the concept of knowledge has been based on an ontological relation [*Seinsverhältnis*] ca...

We must reject entirely the frequently encountered assertion that consciousness is a "primal fact," ...

It is precisely because the principle of the transcendence of the object is completely independent o...

One of my principal theses is that in every case the nature of a being (contingent as well as essent...

This book first arose out of a passage in Borges, out of the laughter that shattered, as I read the ...

Sitting there on the heather, on our planetary grain, I shrank from the abysses that opened up on ev...

But you don’t really mean to say that you couldn’t love me if my name wasn’t Ernest?GWENDOLEN: But y...

Everything 'happens'. People can 'do' nothing. From the time we are born to the time we die things h...

Q. But it seems to me there are circumstances that simply induce one to have negative emo

Q. Surely it is easier to be objective about other people than about oneself?A. No, it is more diffi...

Attaining consciousness is connected with the gradual liberation from mechanicalness, for man is ful...

Many things are mechanical and should remain mechanical. But mechanical thoughts, mechanical feeling...

Everybody make words,' he continued. 'Everybody write things down. Children in school do lessons in ...

Time makes us grow old, but it also gives us the day and the night...Lying is a bad thing. It makes ...

That there is indeed a limit upon science is made very likely by the existence of questions that sci...

Zsoronga, Sorweel was beginning to realize, possessed the enviable ability to yoke his conviction to...

I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of ...

We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'Go...

...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.

...reality is always plural and mutable.

...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist re...

belief is the death of intelligence.

Historically mystics have claimed that for a true understanding of reality metaphysics is too “scien...

[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.

[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.

[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.

[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.

[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.

[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.

[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.

[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.

A professor from UBC observed that he agreed with Alexander Pope about the ultimate unreality of evi...