“Ushikawa always saw himself as a realist, and he actually was. Metaphysical speculation wasn't his thing. If something really existed you, had… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Beyond the nation, we acknowledge those eternal and immutable principles in the name of which one must be ready to fight and… — Corneliu Zelea Codreanu Copy Share Image
The great mystery of our metaphysical situation, that God is nearer to us than we are ourselves, is manifest in the fact… — Dietrich von Hildebrand Copy Share Image
I like filmmakers that try to touch upon the metaphysical, the things that are behind all this, that you can't actually physically… — Mike Cahill Copy Share Image
Make something, a kind of object, which as it changes or falls apart (dies as it were) or increases in its parts… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
That so many manage to accommodate belief systems encompassing both the natural and the supernatural is a testament not to the compatibility… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
I argue, based on metaphysical and physical considerations, that we should think of the fundamental parts of the world as a mix… — L.A. Paul Copy Share Image
When I wrote the story ["The Cartographers"], I'd just gone through a breakup with a woman I'd loved dearly. Without this other… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
“When you say to yourself, 'I am going to have a pleasant visit or a pleasant journey,' you are literally sending elements… — Prentice Mulford Copy Share Image
“Life is fundamentally a mental state. We live in a dream world that we create. Whose life is truer, the rational man… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
When philosophers use a word--"knowledge," "being," "object," "I," "proposition," "name"--and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must always ask… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The more serious poetry of the race has a philosophical structure of thought. It contains beliefs and conceptions in regard to the… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
Oratory, like the drama, abhors lengthiness; like the drama, it must keep doing. It avoids, as frigid, prolonged metaphysical soliloquy. Beauties themselves,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
A high place of honor, although doubtless one to be obtained only after enduring the pangs of a prolonged crucifixion, awaits that… — George Trumbull Ladd Copy Share Image