Esse Quotes

“6.41 Der Sinn der Welt muss ausserhalb ihrer liegen.”
― Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“The role of soil in natural ecosystems shares striking similarities with the role of capital in economies. Just as soil serves as the vital resource underpinning natural ecosystems, capital is the foundational resource driving economic systems.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr., Principles of a Permaculture Economy

“Equitable & Synergistic Systems Economics (ESSE), also known as Permaculture Economics, is a new economic framework I created that merges principles from permaculture – a design system for sustainable and regenerative agriculture and living – with the fundamentals of capitalist economics.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr., Principles of a Permaculture Economy

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Sein ist offenbar kein reales Prädikat, d.i. ein Begriff von irgend etwas, was zu dem Begriffe eines Dinges, oder gewisser Bestimmungen an sich selbst...

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Und so enthält das Wirkliche nichts mehr, als das bloss Mögliche. Hundert wirkliche Thaler enthalten nicht das mindeste mehr, als hundert mögliche...

Aber in meinem Vermögenszustande ist
mehr bei hundert wirklichen Thalern, als bei dem blossen Begriffe derselben, ( d.i. ihrer Moeglichkeit ).”
― Immanuel Kant, Kritik der reinen Vernunft 2. Auflage

“The three greatest metaphysicians who ever existed - Plato, Aristotle and St.Thomas Aquinas - had no system in the idealistic sense of the word. Their ambition was not to achieve philosophy once and for all, but to maintain it and to serve it in ours. For us, as for them, the great thing is not to achieve a system of the world as if being could be deduced from thought, but to relate reality, as we know it, to the permanent principles in whose light all the changing problems of science, of ethics and of art have to be solved. A metaphysics of existence cannot be a system wherewith to get rid of philosophy, it is an always open inquiry, whose conclusions are both always the same and always new, because it is conducted under the guidance of immutable principles, which will never exhaust experience, or be themselves exhausted by it. For even though, as is impossible, all that which exists were known to us, existence itself would still remain a mystery. Why, asked Leibniz, is there something rather than nothing ?”
― Étienne Gilson, The Unity of Philosophical Experience