Philosophers
"[Utility] is that property in any object whereby it tends to produce pleasure, good or happiness..." |
"each branch of knowledge passes successively through three different theoretical conditions: the Theological, ... the Metaphysical, ... and the Scientific." |
"In immediate consciousness, I appear to myself as free; by reflection on the whole of Nature, I discover that freedom is absolutely impossible." | |||
"...it is the very essence of Being to characterise itself, and its complete characterisation is reached in measure. Measure ... may serve as a definition of the Absolute..." |
"It is only momentarily that the particular individual is able to realize existentially a unity of the infinite and the finite which transcends existence. This unity is realized in the moment of passion." |
"The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." | |||
"The falseness of an opinion is not for us any objection to it... The question is how far an opinion is life-furthering..." |
"In brief, [the nature of the transcendental mode of thought] consists in a continuous act of becoming an object to itself on the part of the subjective." |
"The world is my idea [and] the world is my will." |
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