Ironclads and Maxim guns must be the ultimate arbiters of metaphysical truth. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
If our previous analyses are correct, they all point to the same conclusion, that metaphysical adventures are doomed to fail when their… — Etienne Gilson Copy Share Image
The process of reading is not a half sleep, but in the highest sense, an exercise, a gymnast's struggle: that the reader… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Humanists hold that ethical values are relative to human experience and need not be derived from theological or metaphysical foundations. — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
The indispensability argument says (roughly) that if you have ample reason to accept an empirical scientific theory that makes indispensable use of… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content. — Arthur Boyd Copy Share Image
The most perfect philosophy of the natural kind only staves off our ignorance a little longer: as perhaps the most perfect philosophy… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“He knew perfectly well (even if he wasn’t inclined to admit it) that the material body had a spiritual aspect. He knew… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
What is enthralling and illuminating about The Metaphysical Club is its portraits of individuals and their milieus. Menand is wonderfully deft at… — George Scialabba Copy Share Image
Art alone makes life possible – this is how radically I should like to formulate it. I would say that without art… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
Architecture is bound to situation. And I feel like the site is a metaphysical link, a poetic link, to what a building… — Steven Holl Copy Share Image
It is in this mutual dependence of the functions and the aid which they reciprocally lend one another that are founded the… — Georges Cuvier 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 soul contains few secrets and longings which cannot be sensibly discussed, analyzed, and polled. Solitude, the very condition which sustained the… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
“Cherish your existence, for memories become legacies and life can change in an instant.” — Ross Caligiuri Copy Share Image
“Answers are shooting stars in a nebulous firmament. Every burst of outspoken enlightenment fails to betray the vast timeless riddles of their… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
The Earth is beautiful. If you start living its beauty, enjoying its joys with no guilt in your heart, you are in… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
One fast move or I'm gone,' I realize, gone the way of the last three years of drunken hopelessness which is a… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The world's a mean place. It's unfair, then it's fair. It's hateful, then it's loving. It's a very peculiar place on philosophical… — Tim Allen Copy Share Image
If the world is to contain a public space, it cannot be erected for one generation and planned for the living only;… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
By an individual being, whatever one's metaphysical doctrine, one means an unique being, that is, a being which is alone of its… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
