The ontology of materialism rested upon the illusion that the kind of existence, the direct "actuality" of the world around us, can be extrapolated into the atomic range. This extrapolation is impossible, however.
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth!
The final philosophy is the ontology of God.
Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish.
All gods are tricksters, and war gods worst of any.
A good proof is one that makes us wiser.
If, as you teach, the universe has no beginning and no end, why should we?
The world is too big and too intricate to conform to our ideas of what it should be like. . . Just because we invent myths and theories to explain away the chaos we're still going to live in a world that's older and more complicated than we'll ever understand.
Every man heals himself.
The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it.
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.
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.
The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though it in its highest form has created and sustains us, and in its secondary transfinite forms occurs all around us and even inhabits our minds.
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.
I survive. I survived it all then and I'll survive the rest of it. Without your help.
Time is so. . . fluid where I live
All sentences of the type 'deconstruction is X' or 'deconstruction is not X', a priori miss the point, which is to say that they are at least false. As you know, one of the principal things at stake in what is called in my texts 'deconstruction', is precisely the delimiting of ontology and above all of the third-person present indicative: S is P.
Only so much can be borne from men, so much from gods
It is the faithfulness of God that allows epistemology to model ontology.
