"Noumenon" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... cried Zussmann. "The garment of God, as Goethe says. Call Him Noumenon with Kant or Thought and ...
— Dreamers of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill
... Phenomen! pretend the Noumenon to mete and span? Say which were easier probed and proved, ...
— The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi • Richard F. Burton
... piano, in which it may be properly said that music is innate, inasmuch as its mechanism contains, potentially, so many octaves of musical notes. The unknown cause of sensation which Descartes calls the "je ne sais quoi dans les objets" or "choses telles qu'elles sont," and Kant the "Noumenon" or "Ding an sich," is represented by the musician; who, by touching the keys, converts the potentiality of the mechanism into actual sounds. A note so produced is the equivalent of a ...
— Hume - (English Men of Letters Series) • T.H. Huxley
... must go a 'can.' It is not, however, as Phenomenon or Sensible Ens that a man 'can,' is free, has an absolute initiative; all phenomena or Sensible Entia, being in space and time, are subject to the Natural Law of Causality. But man is also Noumenon, Thing-in-self, Intelligible Ens; and as such, being free from conditions of time and space, stands outside of the sequence of Nature. Now, the Noumenon or Ens of the Reason (he assumes) stands higher than, or has a value above, the Phenomenon or Sensible Ens (as much as Reason ...
— Moral Science; A Compendium of Ethics • Alexander Bain
... the Temple," and this is simply the doctrine of utility. But no philosopher, can tell us why mind works on certain lines and not on others, because they cannot tell us definitely that they know what mind is. Mind is a function of Matter: Matter is a function of thought: Mind is Noumenon the unseen and unknown, as contrasted with Phenomena the seen and known; the universe, the creation of the mind; the mind, the product of the universe. All these ideas and many others so widely differing can none of them receive a demonstrable proof;—these contrary statements show how far we are ...
— Cobwebs of Thought • Arachne |
