Metaphysics Quotes · Page 5

I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life; otherwise forget it.

— Robert M. Pirsig

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

— Carl Sagan

“People believe in miracles, precisely because they don’t believe in miracles.”

— Syed Buali Gillani

“Drama does not just walk into our lives. Either we create it, invite it, or associate with it.”

— Brandi L. Bates

Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible.

— H. L. Mencken

When the faculties of mind find their poise in truth, all lesser ideas die or disappear through a process of transmutation.

— Anonymous

Energy defines life not flesh and blood. WE are infinite energies experiencing infinity. Through a finite aperture.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.

— Charles Darwin

Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia, or the treatise on metaphysics,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have found by experience that man makes his plans to be upset by God, but, at the same time, where the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

But to proceed in this reconciling project with regard to the question of liberty and necessity; the most contentious question of metaphysics,…

— David Hume

That Hegel is a metaphysician, and that he thinks metaphysics is fundamental to philosophy, is plain enough from his definition of philosophy.

— Frederick C. Beiser

The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of metaphysics.

— Mircea Eliade

poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you…

— Annie Dillard

“The biggest question, transcending physics and the realm of how he was able to do the extraordinary things he did, remained firmly…

— Sol Luckman

God tries his votaries through and through but never beyond endurance. He gives them strength enough to go through the ordeal he…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The notion that science does not concern itself with first causes - that it leaves the field to theology or metaphysics, and…

— H. L. Mencken

“There is therefore neither conflict nor variation between the method of Logic and the method of Nature. The movement of both is…

— Anonymous

We are merely instruments of the Almighty's will and therefore ignorant of what helps us forward and what acts as an impediment.…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“The Clochemerle 1929 was a magnificent wine. Drinking it in small sips, his grace the Archbishop felt himself well disposed towards the…

— Gabriel Chevallier

“In itself a wall on which a panoramic view of a non-existent world is drawn does not change. But for a great…

— Victor Pelevin

To gauge the understanding and insight that metaphysics provides is to ask whether, in the final analysis, it helps us to cope…

— Rudolph Rummel

“There would be no history as we know it, no religion, no metaphysics or aesthetics as we have lived them, without an…

— George Steiner

“...The spiritual Oriental teachers say a person has three forms of mind,'' Beatrice was explaining to him once, while they were on…

— Anton Sammut

“Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal. -- from The Sexual Side of Spirituality”

— Aberjhani

Fractional Multiplicity' allows for a minute amount of our energy to be present in all places at all times.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics.

— Iain McGilchrist

“One can never "fall" in love, you must rise to it's level of consciousness. Love is not a feeling, it's a state…

— T.C. Carrier

“A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.”

— Amit Kalantri

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next…

— Woody Allen

“The universe is a gigantic amusement park in which we can have a ride or two.”

— Stefan Emunds

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

— Michel de Montaigne

“Oh Time, you arise with parting! [О Время, ты от разлуки!] - Vladislav Khalyavkin, The Operator”

— Vladislav Khalyavkin

“The universe will use any vehicle and any medium to communicate with us. Our job is to be alert and to listen.”

— Elaine Seiler

Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it.

— Franz Grillparzer

“Everything in the seen world is a dim reflection or representation of the unseen world.”

— Dan Pedersen

A long time ago, Descartes sad, “I think, therefore I am.” But if you are not thinking, what?

— Seungsahn

Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes.

— Bertrand Russell

“Metaphysics, the belief in the absolute as a holy power, always forms the foundation of ethics.”

— Herman Bavinck

“The key to the world is the key to your self and the key to yourself is the key to the world.”

— Iva Kenaz