A metaphysical conclusion is either a false conclusion or a concealed experimental conclusion. — Hermann von Helmholtz Copy Share Image
“The only secret of wealth creation is knowing how to use Cosmic Ordering.” — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
Mathematics has not a foot to stand upon which is not purely metaphysical. — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
“souls should, by definition, also teach about “the metaphysical dimensions” — John Medina Copy Share Image
“Oh, the things we can achieve when we aspire to the greatness within ourselves.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Harnessing winter's energy, I drift, my free, wild woman's soul, alight with day's deep desires.” — Susan L. Marshall Copy Share Image
Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. Whenever the Westerner hears the word “psychological,” it always sounds… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“Every morning at breakfast, I sit with hope, and together we sip black coffee— a quiet beginning, full of promise.” — Bhuwan Thapaliya Copy Share Image
Metaphysics attempts to discover the ultimate nature of reality, and in this sense, the innerspace of science fiction is metaphysical fiction. — Kate Wilhelm Copy Share Image
When spiritual, metaphysical, material, or immaterial events come into my life, I can only fix them by way of painting. — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
“My dream is to create something so beautiful that it encourages people to present the best version of themselves to me everywhere… — Ross Caligiuri Copy Share Image
I don’t know about ‘common sense opinion’ by the way. It seems to me that the office of common sense is to… — Peter van Inwagen Copy Share Image
What is it that makes a person insist passionately on the existence of metaphysical realities that can be neither demonstrated nor refuted? (176) — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“Practice letting go of the needing, wanting, or lacking feelings. Those feelings draw you back into the reality of not having what… — Mina Faraway Copy Share Image
Nature does not teach. A true philosophy may sometimes validate an experience of nature; an experience of nature cannot validate a philosophy.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We do not yet trust the unknown powers of thought. Whence came all these tools, inventions, book laws, parties, kingdoms? Out of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If 'god' is a metaphysical term, then it cannot be even probable that a god exists. For to say that 'God exists'… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
Am I in love? Absolutely. I'm in love with ancient philosophers, foreign painters, classic authors, and musicians who have died long ago.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The truth is, that common-sense, or thought as it first emerges above the level of the narrowly practical, is deeply imbued with… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Ayn Rand held that art is a 're-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgements.' By its nature, therefore, a novel… — Leonard Peikoff Copy Share Image
Dickinson is my hero because she was a joker, because she would never explain, because as a poet she confronted pain, dread… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
The metaphysical doctrine of determinism simply asserts that all events in this world are fixed, or unalterable, or predetermined. It does not… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
No degree of prosperity could justify the accumulation of large amounts of highly toxic substances which nobody knows how to make safe… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
Here's an example: someone says, "Master, please hand me the knife," and he hands them the knife, blade first. "Please give me… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“Media are really nothing more than extensions of us. It is we, not the media, who are metaphysical. Metaphysics is part and… — Peter K. Fallon Copy Share Image
Dawkins’s problem is that he doesn’t know the difference between probabilistic empirical theorizing and strict metaphysical demonstration, and thus misreads an attempt… — Edward Feser Copy Share Image
One might get the impression that I recommend a new methodology which replaces induction by counterinduction and uses a multiplicity of theories,… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Monotheistic religions in the West have tended to conflate having a general orientation in life, having a specific theory of the world,… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
In America the taint of sectarianism lies broad upon the land. Not content with acknowledging the supremacy as the Diety, and with… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image