Ontological Exploration Quotes

Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her.

Philosophy... is the creative perception by the spirit of the meaning of human existence.

We have to make philosophy itself an object of philosophical concern.

The God to whom depth in philosophy bring back men's minds is far from being the same from whom a little philosophy estranges them

Metaphysics is a cobweb that the mind weaves around things.

Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed.

Philosophy is not in a state of external reflection on other domains, but in a state of active and internal alliance with them, and it is neither more abstract nor more difficult.

I would welcome the passing of the idea of philosophy as defined by a method of conceptual analysis. But that is not the passing of philosophy, and it leaves the philosopher with the task of grasping natures or essences (among other things).

I came into the world imbued with the will to find a meaning in things, my spirit filled with the desire to attain to the source of the world, and then I found that I was an object in the midst of other objects.

We have demythologized prematurely, that we've actually lost the vocabulary for discussing reality at its largest scales. The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth.