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
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
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
“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
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 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
“On the road to success some will always expect tragedy ... ditch your doubts and experience success with Cosmic Ordering.” — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
“Often the only difference between success and failure is not using Cosmic Ordering.” — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
I never was able to believe in the existence of next year except as in a metaphysical notion. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
“A man may fail many times, and then he turns to Cosmic Ordering.” — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
Paranormal events are just edges of the infinite we 'happen' to encounter. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Who was I? The stranger was footsteps in the snow a long time ago. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I think part of Western metaphysical dualism is, we're always being asked to choose one over the other. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Myth is necessary because reality is so much larger than rationality...man is fundamentally mythic...His real health depends upon his knowing and living… — Clyde S. Kilby Copy Share Image
By then running had entered the realm of the metaphysical. First there came the action of running, and accompanying it there was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I've got deeper journeys to take. Metaphysical journeys. Journeys to see Christ. Shaman journeys. It's what I've been elected by God to… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the signs and signals of the non-language speaking world are not very clear. Then we have to walk in trust, move… — Elaine Seiler Copy Share Image
It is thus necessary to examine all things according to their essence, to infer from every species such true and well established… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
In writing Snowboarding to Nirvana I have intentionally written an inspirational spiritual adventure story, which will hopefully provide people with metaphysical techniques,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The American Indians, the ancient Indians would say, the metaphysical ones would say: "Power binds us together." Power, for a while, makes… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Without the cross the Discipline of Confession would be merely therapeutic. But it is so much more. It involves an objective [a… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
A pleasant comedy, which paints the manners of the age, and exposes a faithful picture of nature, is a durable work, and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
It was the fashion of the times to attribute every remarkable event to the particular will of the Deity; the alterations of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The metaphysical apologia at least betrayed the injustice of the established order through the incongruence of concept and reality. The impartiality of… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The question that faces every man born into this world is not what should be his purpose, which he should set about… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
“God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but Fate and Nature. Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Accurate and just reasoning is the only catholic remedy, fitted for all persons and all dispositions; and is alone able to subvert… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Why are there organized beings? Why is there something rather than nothing? Here again, I fully understand a scientist who refuses to… — Etienne Gilson Copy Share Image
I submit that tennis is the most beautiful sport there is, and also the most demanding…Basketball comes close, but it's a team… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“they would be astonished to discover the seriously German problem that we are dealing with, a vortex and a turning-point at the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Eleanor had heard talk of the rebellion that existed inside the city of Constance before. Most of the information she gathered was… — Ross Caligiuri Copy Share Image