Isaac Newton Quotes

I think, therefore I am.

The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits of essences and are coextensive with Being.

The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being.

Einstein said, if everything exists as a substance of qualities, and qualities exist only in mind, then all is mind.

We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time.

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded or dissolved from things that are. So they would be right to call coming into being composition and perishing dissolution.

Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.

Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it.

Is the ground a philosophical concept? Has mind a relationship to the ground? Is it an idea to be investigated? Is the ground put together by thought?

Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?

Is it true that existence consists only in the action of energy? Or is it not rather that energy is an output of Existence?

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

We must wish either for that which actually exists or for that which cannot in any way exist or, still better, for both. That which is and that which cannot be are both outside the realm of becoming.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

The possible ranks higher than the actual.

The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion.

Existence precedes and rules essence.

Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.

All things in the world come from being. And being comes from non-being.

To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics.

Metaphysics is a science.

First, philosophy concerns itself with all kinds of issues that don't get much airtime in day-to-day life. What's the nature of reality? Can we ever truly know anything, and if so, how? What does it mean to be a moral agent? And while we're at it, is there any such thing as agency anyway?