“Do not be afraid of the word 'theory'. Yes, it can sound dauntingly abstract at times, and in the hands of some… — Richard Howells Copy Share Image
Art's a very metaphysical activity. It's something that enriches the parameters of your life, the possibilities of being, and you touch transcendence… — Jeff Koons Copy Share Image
“It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I am metaphysical being, mystical and emotional, skeptical and cynical, happy and boisterous, loud and bawdy, quiet and melancholy, tender and cruel,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“When you pay your bills, visualize the money circulating to and from you. Know that the money you pay for the goods… — Mina Faraway Copy Share Image
“Particularly when it comes to chaos magic, building your own optimal metaphysics becomes more challenging when you have to shoehorn it into… — Gordon White Copy Share Image
The Cabal is of two kinds, theoretical and practical, with the practical Cabala, which is engaged in the construction of talismans and… — Albert Mackey 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
“In this lifetime we are like Superman who must remain disguised as the nerdy newspaper journalist Clark Kent, or Harry Potter and… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
Christianity is an old metaphysical fiction, stuffed with fables, contradictions and absurdities: it was spawned in the fevered imagination of the Orientals,… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one... It’s this in-between that… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
I am not sure one is capable of reflecting absurdity without having a strong sense of meaning. Absurdity makes sense only against… — Vaclav Havel 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
I don't believe in god, so I don't have to make elaborately sounded structures. ... Pain always produces logic, which is very… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
About 70% of what I've written about is centered on the clashes and conformities between the emerging life and physical sciences and… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
I do think that metaphysical exploration is like scientific exploration, in the sense that philosophers and scientists are both developing models of… — L.A. Paul Copy Share Image
It's this expandable capacity to represent reasons that we have that gives us a soul. But what's it made of? It's made… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience...With no membership lists… — John Naisbitt Copy Share Image
It [destroying Twin Towers] was a leap into another realm - the realm of crazy abstractions and mythological generalities, involving people who… — Edward Said 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
Some authors have what amounts to a metaphysical approach. They admit to inspiration. Sudden and unaccountable urgencies to writecatapult them out of… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
Christianity - An old metaphysical romance, filled with marvels, contradictions, and absurdity, born in the ardent imagination of Orientals, has spread into… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this:… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
In strict science, all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness. Shall we fear to cool our love by mining… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are times when I can find myself in a book, too, for two or three hours. But afterward I have such… — David Ignatow Copy Share Image
“Science and Spirituality are two sides of the same coin and we cannot separate one from the other. Science is trying to… — Thomas Vazhakunnathu 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
“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
A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, 'The Clock' is more than a movie or even… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“Philosophers can never hope finally to formulate these metaphysical first principles. Weakness of insight and deficiencies of language stand in the way… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Science is wonderful at destroying metaphysical answers, but incapable of providing substitute ones. Science takes away foundations without providing a replacement. Whether… — Hilary Putnam Copy Share Image
The Overman will himself be a nihilist in the (good) sense of rejecting any metaphysical or religious grounding for truth and value,… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Maybe the siren was was a fire truck? Mercer couldn't see one anywhere, but like some bounding St. Bernard of the metaphysical,… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
In reality no food is valued solely for its nutritive power and no garment or house solely for the protection it affords… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
To accept the fact that, after fertilization has taken place, a new human has come into being is no longer a matter… — Jerome Lejeune Copy Share Image
I've had years of bizarre hallucinogenic magical experiences in which I believed I had communicated with entities that may well have been… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning… — Thomas Jefferson 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
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
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