Status Updates From An Introduction to Metaphysics

‘To philosophize, therefore, is to invert the habitual direction of the work of thought.’

'Is it astonishing that, like children trying to catch smoke by closing their hands, philosophers so often see the object they would grasp fly before them? It is in this way that many of the quarrels between the schools are perpetuated, each of them reproaching the others with having allowed the real to slip away.'

'The distance, then, between a so-called "empiricism" like that of Taine and the most transcendental speculations of certain German pantheists is very much less than generally supposed.'

This is incessantly repetitive, unfortunately.