Why the World Does Not Exist Quotes

“Philosophers view the world to a certain extent in the same way as do alien beings or children. Everything is always completely new. They mistrust strongly ingrained judgments, and, yes, they even mistrust the scientific claims of experts.”
― Markus Gabriel, Why the World Does Not Exist

“the task of philosophy is to start over from the beginning time and time again.”
― Markus Gabriel, Why the World Does Not Exist

“When, at a closer glance, so many objects are questionable, when all knowledge seems to be clothed in a kind of deep unknowing, why do we still place any trust at all in reality as it appears to us, in the world in which we seem to live?”
― Markus Gabriel, Why the World Does Not Exist

“If I had the talent, say, to draw the visual field that is right infront of me, I would be able to see a picture of my visual field. But obviously this picture would not be my visual field but only another thing in my visual field. The same applies to the world: whenever we consider ourselves to have understood the world, we have only a copy or a picture of the world before us. We cannot grasp the world conceptually because there is no field of sense to which it belongs. The world does not appear on the stage of the world; it does not step up and introduce itself to us.”
― Markus Gabriel, Why the World Does Not Exist