Ontology Quotes
Ontology Quote of the day
It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology.
Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.
When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waking state from the dream. How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?
All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself.
Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.
The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it.
Utopia would seem to offer the spectacle of one of those rare phenomena whose concept is indistinguishable from its reality, whose ontology coincides with its representation.
It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by differential equations.
Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.
There's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology.
ALGEBRA is a general Method of Computation by certain Signs and Symbols which have been contrived for this Purpose, and found convenient.
The line has magnitude in one way, the plane in two ways, and the solid in three ways, and beyond these there is no other magnitude because the three are all.
We call infinite that thing whose limits we have not perceived, and so by that word we do not signify what we understand about a thing, but rather what we do not understand.
In my paper the fact the XY was not equal to YX was very disagreeable to me. I felt this was the only point of difficulty in the whole scheme...and I was not able to solve it.
To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.
No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof.
He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion.
Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.
I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.
My opinion of mankind is founded upon the mournful fact that, so far as I can see, they find within themselves the means of believing in a thousand times as much as there is to believe in.
What are the units of ontology really that I should be a part of a whole, but not be, in all my awareness, chiefly the whole unto itself?
On a basic level- everything we say- essentially anything that comes out of our mouths is a rationalisation in some form or another
