Metaphysics

Quotes & Thinkers in Metaphysics

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"Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law."

Immanuel Kant· b. 1724View quote →

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Philosophy

Idealism

1770–1831

"The force of mind is only as great as its expression; its depth only as deep as its power to expand and lose itself."

"It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists."

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🇬🇧Alfred North Whitehead

Philosophy

1861–1947

"The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit."

"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world."

"Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity."

"is of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate."

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🇺🇸Florence Scovel Shinn

Art

1871–1940

"Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement."

"Obviously enough, we cannot decide what evolution entails without a fairly sharp conception of what it is."

"Only the idea of God gives me the confidence that morality will become reality on earth. And because I cannot live without this confidence, I cannot live without God."

"Theological writing always transgresses itself, just as theological speech feeds on the silence in which, at last, it speaks correctly."

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🇬🇧Donald M. MacKinnon

"Michael Loux, Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame"

"It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong."

"While speaking in ideology, and from within ideology we have to outline a discourse which tries to break with ideology, in order to dare to be the beginning of a scientific discourse on ideology."

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🇩🇪Friedrich_Wilhelm_Joseph_Schelling

Pre-Socratic philosophy

-514–-469

"It is indifferent to me where I am to begin, for there shall I return again."

"Schumacher ... rightly saw that in the world today Buddhism is a more potent basis for resisting the economism that rules the West and through it most of the East."

"Form is a theatrical event of a certain length, and the length itself may be unpredictable."

"Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it."

"Hitchens: I've got another question for you, which is this: How many religions in the world do you believe to be false?"

"William of Ockham" at the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy"

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Notable Quotes

"Two things awe me most: the starry sky above me and the moral law within me."

— Immanuel Kant, b. 1724View →

"Poetry is the universal art of the spirit which has become free in itself and which is not tied down for its realization to external sensuous material; instead, it launches out exclusively in the inner space and the inner time of ideas and feelings."

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, b. 1770View →

"This final aim is God's purpose with the world; but God is the absolutely perfect Being, and can, therefore, will nothing but himself."

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, b. 1770View →

"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world."

— Arthur Schopenhauer, b. 1788View →

"The force of mind is only as great as its expression; its depth only as deep as its power to expand and lose itself."

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, b. 1770View →

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