Paul Feyerabend Quotes

In the past some of the most influential Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians, such as Maimonides, Aquinas and Ibn Sina, made it clear that it was very difficult to speak about God, because when we confront the ultimate, we are at the end of what words or thoughts can do.

Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible.

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.

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.

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

All known existence points beyond itself.

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

What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth.

The meaning of the universe lies outside the universe.

I'm very passionate about philosophy and religion.

The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world.

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

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.

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

Philosophy begins in wonder.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

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?

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

Divine Nature cannot be apprehended by human reason.

I think, therefore I am.

My purpose is to explain, not the meaning of words, but the nature of things.

Western Humanism does not ask the fundamental questions about the meaning and limits of personal experience. Humsniists leave aside the mysteries of contingency and transitoriness, for the certainties of research, production, consumption.

The two basic topics which fascinate me are 'What is reality?' and 'What constitutes the authentic human being?'

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

I'm very interested in theories in how we exist: how people exist and how souls exist separate from their bodies or their brains.