"Unperceivable" Quotes from Famous Books
... in no other way than through sensuous intuition. Metaphysics seeks to be a science of the real, but it is impossible to conjure being out of thought; reality cannot be proved from concepts, it can only be felt. In making the unperceivable and suprasensible (the real nature of things, the totality of the world, the Deity, and immortality) the special object of philosophy, rationalism looked on the understanding as a faculty of knowledge by which objects are ... — History Of Modern Philosophy - From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time • Richard Falckenberg |