Evolution is true, it happens, it is the way the world is, and we too are one of its products. This does… — Simon Conway Morris Copy Share Image
“Whether you take a doughnut hole as blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Human freedom is realised in the adoption of humanity as an end in itself, for the one thing that no-one can be… — Immanuel Kant 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
Human rebellion ends in metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“True psycho-emotional exploration, rooted in desire (what I call BioSpirituality), replaces metaphysical story telling with the real thing.” — Zzenn Copy Share Image
“How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask-half our great theological… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
From the metaphysical point of view there is nothing that can touch the formless except the art of music which in itself… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
It's also one of these strange points where metaphysics converges with economy. Because really what the experts are doing is creating value… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
“While I do not believe in imperative goals or ends, I do believe in a returning endgame. When you reach one end,… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
“[T]he question "What is everything?" has no meaning, even though it seems to be profound. [...] The point is, perhaps, that I… — Alan W. Watts 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
The spontaneous tendency to invoke a Final Cause in explanation of every difficulty is characteristic of metaphysical philosophy. It arises from a… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Philosophers do need to have intuitions of various specific sorts: ethical, metaphysical, etc., depending on their targeted subject matter. And they must… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
“As her feet beat the concrete ground beneath them, her chest began to ache. It had been a long time since she… — Ross Caligiuri Copy Share Image
We call 'Slavery is wrong' a moral truth because there is a specific history of theoretical investigation of a particular kind of… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
“The universe, once a source of wonder, now felt like a cruel jester playing with his fragile heart. — Melissa, Ch. 19” — Jacklyn A. Lo Copy Share Image
The quality of the human that precludes identifying the individual with the class is 'metaphysical' and has no place in empiricist epistemology.… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
You need to put easy, nice, tranquil thoughts in your head before you go to bed. You know what I do? I… — Cristina Saralegui Copy Share Image
The idea of universal human rights may not seem as weird to some people as the idea of a personal God, but… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature,… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
If you're honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you're forced to separate what is right from what… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Think about the things you do now that are not along the lines of your purpose in life, and come up with… — Mina Faraway Copy Share Image
The metaphysical insanities of Athanasius, of Loyola, and of Calvin, are, to my understanding, mere lapses into polytheism, differing from paganism only… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Naturalism is a methodological rather than a metaphysical view. It's because I am a naturalist, actually, that I am sceptical about physicalism. — Tim Crane Copy Share Image
For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
The harmony of natural law reveals an Intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“The Metaphoton is a web of energy fields or complexes - having three hierarchical complexes called the light complex, mind complex and… — Thomas Vazhakunnathu Copy Share Image
“The less you know, the more you will be known The less you want, the more you will have The less you… — Vivian Amis Copy Share Image
In every rebellion is to be found the metaphysical demand for unity, the impossibility of capturing it, and the construction of a… — Albert Camus 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
“Thus, although OSR entails ESR, the two remain at odds insofar as the former adopts a definite metaphysical stance that the latter… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“God is not only something metaphysical, but also the physical world, the plants and animals, the mountains and rivers, the air and… — Jeffrey R. Anderson Copy Share Image
There will be well-testable theories, hardly testable theories, and non-testable theories. Those which are non-testable are of no interest to empirical scientists.… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Metaphysical speculation is about as pointless as a discussion on the meaning of one's lungs. They're for breathing. — P. D. James Copy Share Image
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