Metaphysics Quotes

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...

In post-Nietzschean spirit, the West appears to be busily undermining its own erstwhile metaphysical...

In the deep night of metaphysics, all cats look black.

Derrida… labels as ‘metaphysical’ any such thought system which depends on an unassailable foundatio...

In the pragmatist, streetwise climate of advanced postmodern capitalism, with its scepticism of big ...

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.

In itself a wall on which a panoramic view of a non-existent world is drawn does not change. But for...

Comrades in the struggle! The position of modern man is not merely lamentable; one might even say th...

My brothers and sisters of America, there is not the least shadow of hope that India can ever be Chr...

Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la méta...

Can you really believe that a drop of urine is an infinity of monads, and that each of these has ide...

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. The fundamental concep...

Why are we here? We're here to go!

If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an...

if being is many, it must be both like and unlike, and this is impossible, for neither can the like ...

Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past...

Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.

A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmareto the jeweled vis...

What is this slow blue dream of living, and this fevered death by dreaming?

Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.

Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal.-- from The Sexual Side of Spirit...

Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, the...

The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorat...

Rainer Maria Rilke greeted and wrestled with the angels of his Duino Elegies in the solitude of a ca...

From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the ...

Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.

I've often thought that there isn't any "I" at all; that we are simply the means of expression of so...

The map is not the territory.

From time immemorial, some men supposed to deal in one-valued 'eternal verities'. We called such men...

...no thought, if it be non-mathematical in spirit, can be trusted, and, although mathematicians som...

Philosophy in its old form could exist only in the absence of engineering, but with engineering in e...

Indeed neither life nor science bothers about "essences"-they leave "essences" to metaphysics, which...

Both ignorance and the old metaphysics tend to produce these undesirable nervous effects of reversed...

So live. I'll be the nun for you. I am now.

The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.

And further, observing that all this indeterminate substance is in motion, and that no true predicat...

Michael O'Toole had no difficulty recognizing which questions in life should be answered by physics ...

In consequence of the inevitably scattered and fragmentary nature of our thinking, which has been me...