' Metaphysics '...

Metaphysics proves the existence of reality but is unable to enter into it.

Indeed, metaphysics must in the end criticize the desert-sand dryness of its own medium of thinking and not make the mistake of regarding thought-activity as the ultimately real, when it is itself only a section cut from the whole of human experience and existence.

The intellect offers a reality which can never be a felt reality but only a described one and then only in negative terms.

Intellectual work can only paint the picture of reality; we have to verify this picture by realizing it within our own experience.

The final office of reasoned thought is to reveal why reason is not competent to judge reality and why thinking is not competent to know reality.



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