Quotes about Ontology

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For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is uncha — George Orwell, 1984
I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying — René Descartes
Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction. — Slavoj Žižek, Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism
One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes’ argument “I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if u — Jean-Paul Sartre
All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with ones — Alain Badiou, Metapolitics
Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons. — Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock
And one thing we know is real: horror. It is so real, in fact, that we cannot be sure it could not exist without us. Yes — Thomas Ligotti, Songs of a Dead Dreamer
Bodies are real entities. Surfaces and lines are but fictitious entities. A surface without depth, a line without thickn — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings
In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets of amusement—in that — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings
The most perfect and satisfactory knowledge is that of perception but this is limited to the absolutely particular, to t — Arthur Schopenhauer
To clarify the existentiality of the Self, we take as our ‘natural’ point of departure Dasein’s everyday interpretation — Martin Heidegger
The ‘I’ is a bare consciousness, accompanying all concepts. In the ‘I’, ‘nothing more is represented than a transcendent — Martin Heidegger
But how does it come about that while the ‘I think’ gives Kant a genuine phenomenal starting-point, he cannot exploit it — Martin Heidegger
What is the motive for this ‘fugitive’ way of saying “I”? It is motivated by Dasein’s falling; for as falling, it *flees — Martin Heidegger
Dasein *is authentically itself* in the primordial individualization of the reticent resoluteness which exacts anxiety o — Martin Heidegger
We assert now that Being is the proper and sole theme of philosophy. This is not our own invention; it is a way of putti — Martin Heidegger
Our conduct of the ontological investigation in the first and second parts opens up for us at the same time a view of th — Martin Heidegger
Thus with the question of the Being of truth and the necessity of presupposing it, just as with the question of the esse — Martin Heidegger
Curiosity is everywhere and nowhere. This mode of Being-in-the-world reveals a new kind of Being of everyday Dasein―a ki — Martin Heidegger
Certainly, what Kant calls the transcendental reference, experience and object of experience are in a sense present in b — Max Scheler