Ontology Quotes

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

Its strangeness is, we might say, due to its very reality, to the very fact that there is existence....

I ascended, I ascended, I dreamt, I thought,—but everything oppressed me. A sick one did I resemble,...

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

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...

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...

Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of our mind; the first is to receive representati...

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

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

Bodies are real entities. Surfaces and lines are but fictitious entities. A surface without depth, a...

In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets ...

But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight in...

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...

Science and philosophy have for centuries been sustained by unquestioning faith in perception. Perce...

Certainly, what Kant calls the transcendental reference, experience and object of experience are in ...

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...

In Leibniz we can already find the striking observation that *cogitatur ergo est* is no less evident...

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 ...

We are in an outside that carries inner worlds.

Only if the being of creation is good, only if trust in being is fundamentally justified, are humans...

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

Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.

For every relationship involves two related terms. Sometimes relationships are not real in either te...

Causes of individuals presuppose causes of the species, which are not univocal yet not wholly equivo...

And one thing we know is real: horror. It is so real, in fact, that we cannot be sure it could not e...

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

All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through...

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

The most perfect and satisfactory knowledge is that of perception but this is limited to the absolut...

We also find *physics*, in the widest sense of the word, concerned with the explanation of phenomena...

In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which ...