That afternoon She listened to the grievances of the dead from two warring nations. Both sides had suffered, both sides had legitimate grievances, both pled their cases earnestly. She covered Her ears and moaned in misery. She knew Her humans were multidimensional and She could no longer live under the rigid architecture of Her youthful choices.
David EaglemanTags: religion metaphysics ontology
But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel...it's ridiculous. That novel was composed of scratches on a page, dear. The characters inhabiting it have no life outside of those scratches. What happened to them? They all ceased to exist the moment the novel ended.
John GreenTags: imagination art fiction ontology intentional-fallcy
Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.
Slavoj ŽižekTags: reality philosophy psychology ontology
That which isn’t love, isn’t god.
John K. BrownTags: love god spirituality theology metaphysics ontology
In humans (and humans alone), sexuality is embodied in desire--in the primordial desire for life-as-relation. That the sex drive serves the vital desire for relation--that on the level of the primordial process, the desire for life-in-itself clothes itself in the sex drive--belongs to the particularity of being human.
Christos YannarasTags: existence humanity sex human ontology existential desire relationship being-human yannaras human-love life-as-relation relational-ontology
The type of nothing from which something can arise is truly something.
John K. BrownTags: god spirituality cosmology metaphysics ontology big-bang nothingness
Comrades in the struggle! The position of modern man is not merely lamentable; one might even say that there is no condition, because man hardly exists. Nothing exists to which one could point and say: 'There, that is Homo Zapiens.' HZ is simply the residual luminescence of a soul fallen asleep; it is a film about the shooting of another film, shown on a television in an empty house.
Victor PelevinTags: metaphysics ontology
He may actually have been existing in the past and approximating a conceivable future, which brought even the assumption of his immediate perceptions as being in the present into doubt. And thus, he couldn’t—beyond a hint of skepticism—say that he truly existed right now and in this moment, but instead it seemed more rational to assume that he simply existed and nothing more.
Ashim ShankerTags: skepticism ontology solipsism past-and-future past-and-present time-slipping perception-and-reality approximate-truth
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