Quotes about Ontology
God exists necessarily and is the explanation why anything else exists.
- William Lane Craig
All that exists is metaphysically true and metaphysically good.
- Peter Kreeft
God is not related to creatures as though belonging to a different "genus," but as transcending every "genus," and as the principle of all "genera."
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Hence, according to the Philosopher (Metaph. x), "things which are diverse are absolutely distinct, but things which are different differ by something.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
To see this we must learn that some have said that relation is not a reality, but only an idea. But this is plainly seen to be false from the very fact that things themselves have a mutual natural order and habitude.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.
- Deepak Chopra
Abstraction is the condition of the science of metaphysics, but in no way is its content.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
those who inquire into the number of existents: for they inquire whether the ultimate constituents of existing things are one or many, and if many, whether a finite or an infinite plurality.
- Aristotle
If, then, 'substance' is not attributed to anything, but other things are attributed to it, how does 'substance' mean what is rather than what is not?
- Aristotle
Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.
- Madeleine L'Engle
A student of Old Testament theology must be alert to the problem of conventional thinking about ontology, thinking that is essentially alien to Old Testament testimony.
- Walter Brueggemann
Like apes, we breed, sleep, and die. Yet like God we say, "I am." We are ontological oxymorons.
- Peter Kreeft