Quotes About Ontology

Existentia nunquam ad essentiam rei pertinent.

Epistemology models ontology.

institutional facts in general require language because the language is partly constitutive of the facts. But

Moartea nu poate fi înÅ£eleas? decât dac? viaÅ£a este simÅ£it? ca o agonie, în care moartea se îmbin? cu viaÅ£a. Moartea nu e ceva în afar?, ontologic diferit? de via??, deoarece moartea ca realitate autonom? de via?? nu exist?.

By that which is self-caused , I mean that of which the essence involves existence, or that of which the nature is only conceivable as existent.

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.

If an ontology predicts almost nothing it ends up explaining almost nothing, and there's no reason to believe it.

The nothing nothings.

Das Nichts nichtet

Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.

The one: how it is (what it, Being, is) and also how not-Being (is) impossible. This is the pathway of grounded trust

When we say something about something, we make it lie there before us, which means at the same time to make it appear.

On this "way," if to keep falling down and getting up can be called a way, it is always and only the same question of the "meaning of beyng" that is asked.

Iedereen is de ander, en niemand is zichzelf.

the wonder that this world is worlding around us at all, that there are beings rather than nothing, that things are and we ourselves are in their midst, that we ourselves are and yet barely know who we are, and barely know that we do not know all this.

On ne peut entreprendre de définir l'être sans tomber dans cette absurdité: car on ne peut définir un mot sans commencer par celui-ci, c'est, soit qu'on l'exprime ou qu'on le sous-entende. Donc pour définir l'être, il faudrait dire c'est, et ainsi employer le mot défini dans sa définition.

En tanto el tiempo es en cada caso mío, existen muchos tiempos. El tiempo carece de sentido; el tiempo es temporal

For words and language are not wrappings in which things are packed for the commerce of those who write and speak. It is in words and language that things first come into being and are.

Ein Zeug »ist« strenggenommen nie. Zum Sein von Zeug gehört je immer ein Zeugganzes, darin es dieses Zeug sein kann, das es ist. Zeug ist wesenhaft »etwas, um zu..«.

Being is essentially different from a being, from beings.

All the propositions of ontology are Temporal propositions. Their truths unveil structures and possibilities of being in the light of Temporality. All ontological propositions have the character of Temporal truth, veritas temporalis.

The ontology of life is accomplished by way of a privative Interpretation; it determines what must be the case if there can be anything like mere-aliveness [Nur-noch-leben].

man's Being, is 'defined' as the ???? ????? ????—as that living thing whose Being is essentially determined by the potentiality for discourse.

Tendríamos que aprender a reconocer que las cosas mismas son los lugares y que no se limitan a pertenecer a un lugar.