For those for whom the sex act has come to seem mechanical and merely the meeting and manipulation of body parts, there… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Words are very powerful and can lead anyone reading them or hearing them, into contemplation and insight. How the mind follows suit… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
It is possible to be a meta-physician without believing in a transcendent reality; for we shall see that many metaphysical utterances are… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
“To struggle against the weight of sleep as reality eclipses the moon of your dreams is the purest sign of true love.” — Ross Caligiuri Copy Share Image
What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are… — Wayne Coyne Copy Share Image
There is something about the light, the heat (physical and perhaps metaphysical), the vibrancy of street life, and the rawness and disjointedness… — Alex Webb Copy Share Image
Three principles - the conformability of nature to herself, the applicability of the criterion of simplicity, and the utility of certain parts… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments. — Ayn Rand 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 Cabala may be defined to be a system of philosophy which embraces certain mystical interpretations of Scripture, and metaphysical and spiritual… — Albert Mackey Copy Share Image
“Quinn seemed to have become one of a jaded philosophical society, a group of arcane deviates. Their raison d'etre was a kind… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“A man may fail many times, and then he turns to Cosmic Ordering.” — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Muse, time has taught me that all metaphysical systems, even historical facts given as truths, are hardly that, so I amuse myself… — Mary Wortley Montagu 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
The old metaphysical prejudice that man 'always thinks' has not yet entirely disappeared. I am myself inclined to hold that man really… — Wilhelm Wundt Copy Share Image
The significance of God, cause, number, substance or soul consists, as James asserts, in nothing but the tendency of the given concept… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Since substance is infinite, the universe as a whole, i.e., god, Hegel is telling us that philosophy is knowledge of the infinite,… — Frederick C. Beiser 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
Animism is a monist metaphysical stance, based upon the idea that mind and matter are not distinct and separate substances but an… — Emma Restall Orr 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
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
Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality?… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
