| 21462 | It is still possible to largely accept Kant as a whole (where others must be dismantled) [Kant, by Gardner] |
| 5600 | Human reason considers all knowledge as belonging to a possible system [Kant] |
| 21457 | Reason has two separate objects, morality and freedom, and nature, which ultimately unite [Kant] |
| 19587 | Philosophy aims to produce a priori an absolute and artistic world system [Novalis] |
| 22069 | Plato has no system. Philosophy is the progression of a mind and development of thoughts [Schlegel,F] |
| 5433 | For Hegel, things are incomplete, and contain external references in their own nature [Hegel, by Russell] |
| 6947 | Metaphysics does not rest on facts, but on what we are inclined to believe [Peirce] |
| 21489 | Super-ordinate disciplines give laws or principles; subordinate disciplines give concrete cases [Peirce, by Atkin] |
| 20265 | The desire for a complete system requires making the weak parts look equal to the rest [Nietzsche] |
| 23183 | Different abilities are needed for living in an incomplete and undogmatic system [Nietzsche] |
| 2892 | Wanting a system in philosophy is a lack of integrity [Nietzsche] |
| 22647 | A complete system is just a classification of the whole world's ingredients [James] |
| 21571 | Philosophical systems are interesting, but we now need a more objective scientific philosophy [Russell] |
| 21574 | Hegel's confusions over 'is' show how vast systems can be built on simple errors [Russell] |
| 21587 | Philosophers sometimes neglect truth and distort facts to attain a nice system [Russell] |
| 23886 | Systems are not unique to each philosopher. The platonist tradition is old and continuous [Weil] |
| 19620 | Great systems of philosophy are just brilliant tautologies [Cioran] |
| 23072 | Systems are the worst despotism, in philosophy and in life [Cioran] |
| 22140 | The greatest philosophers are methodical; it is what makes them great [Grice] |
| 1627 | Any statement can be held true if we make enough adjustment to the rest of the system [Quine] |
| 23563 | Philosophy moves continually between elaborate theories and the obvious facts [Murdoch] |
| 23942 | Philosophy is creating an intellectual conceptual structure for life [Solomon] |
| 8558 | One system has properties, powers, events, similarity and substance [Shoemaker] |
| 2319 | Metaphysics is the clarification of the ontological relationships between different areas of thought [Kim] |
| 21461 | I tried to be unsystematic and piecemeal, but failed; my papers presuppose my other views [Lewis] |
| 2797 | As coherence expands its interrelations become steadily tighter, culminating only in necessary truth [Dancy,J] |
| 18535 | Without abstraction we couldn't think systematically [Heil] |
| 13917 | Metaphysics aims to identify categories of being, and show their interdependency [Lowe] |
| 21460 | Only Kant and Hegel have united nature, morals, politics, aesthetics and religion [Gardner] |
| 20349 | Metaphysics aims at the essence of things, and a system to show how this explains other truths [Richardson] |
| 20350 | Metaphysics generalises the data, to get at the ontology [Richardson] |
| 20351 | Metaphysics needs systems, because analysis just obsesses over details [Richardson] |
| 15390 | Metaphysics attempts to give an account of everything, in terms of categories and principles [Simons] |
| 13751 | If you tore the metaphysics out of philosophy, the whole enterprise would collapse [Schaffer,J] |
| 22820 | Early Romantics sought a plurality of systems, in a quest for freedom [Hösle] |