John Clayton Quotes

We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. 'I am' is the closest foundation we can get.

There is nothing in the universe but matter.

The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion.

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.

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

I think, therefore I am.

I stick my finger into existence.. it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? What is this thing called the world? What does this word mean?

Being is only Being for Dasein.

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

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not.

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

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

It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.

What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe.

The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.

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.

Human beings are not capable of creating a thought that truly conceives of this existence. Nobody knows if we are really here, alive, or anything. It's a mystery.

Truth is the summit of being.

Thought is matter as much as the floor, the wall, the telephone, are matter.

Is perception equivalent to existence?

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

I am all that there is of the most real.

Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.