“ The lights became stars, which became streaks in the grayspace, and then networks of fading shimmers Ashim Shanker
“ What are the units of ontology really that I should be a part of a whole, but not be, in all my awareness, chiefly the whole unto itself? Ashim Shanker
“ In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not mimic primitive ontology in order to challenge it… Christopher Hitchens
“ On a basic level- everything we say- essentially anything that comes out of our mouths is a rationalisation in some form or another Mohadesa Najumi
“ Heidegger is the philosopher to whom especially postmodernists chiefly appeal in their radical rejections of metaphysics and of any and every conception of the entirety of actuality, of Being as such… Lorenz B. Puntel
“ Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, I am. We are ontological oxymorons. Peter Kreeft
“ The most perfect and satisfactory knowledge is that of perception but this is limited to the absolutely particular, to the individual. The comprehension of the many and the various into *one* represen… Arthur Schopenhauer
“ Being and not being are not two different realities, but two different aspects of the same reality. Raheel Farooq
“ In consequence of the inevitably scattered and fragmentary nature of our thinking, which has been mentioned, and of the mixing together of the most heterogeneous representations thus brought about and… Arthur Schopenhauer
“ There appears to be a fifth way, that of eminence. According to this I argue that it is incompatible with the idea of a most perfect being that anything should excel it in perfection (from the corolla… John Duns Scotus
“ For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if… George Orwell
“ You see, proteins, as I probably needn't tell you, are immensely complicated groupings of amino acids and certain other specialized compounds, arranged in intricate three-dimensional patterns that are… Isaac Asimov
“ But—let me tell you my cat joke. It's very short and simple. A hostess is giving a dinner party and she's got a lovely five-pound T-bone steak sitting on the sideboard in the kitchen waiting to be coo… Philip K. Dick
“ But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel...it's ridiculous. That novel was composed of scratches on a page, de… John Green
“ In my mind, I could sense their roots under the soil, creeping in helical tangles of ever-increasing complexity outward and in all directions—out beyond the perimeter of the Helsingør Wood, out below… Ashim Shanker
“ Hegel represents history as the self-realization of spirit (Geist) or God. The fundamental scheme of his theory is as follows. Spirit is self-creative energy imbued with a drive to become fully consci… Robert C. Tucker
