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
[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Music has the power to transcend your physical being and take you up. Because music has a metaphysical quality it really makes… — Wayne Coyne Copy Share Image
Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant. — Lionel Trilling 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 ULTIMATE METAPHYSICAL SECRET, if we dare state it so simply, is that there are no boundaries in the universe. Boundaries are… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“Music is the metaphysical representation of our shredded hearts, all of our pain and anger, our love and joy, ground up and… — C.M. Stunich Copy Share Image
“I confess that neither the structure of language, nor the code of governments, nor the politics of various states possessed attractions for… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
Nothing in our politics is any longer driven or designed by individual humans who have a name and a face; we have… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
My intention was to grapple with the metaphysical meaning behind Scheherazade and present that meaning in its essence. Scheherazade is the symbol… — Alonzo King Copy Share Image
The most perfect philosophy of the natural kind only staves off our ignorance a little longer: as perhaps the most perfect philosophy… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I enjoy the writings of all of these authors and they have been very inspirational for me. But I think that it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“It was a metaphysical perception that an end could never come to a person who was more alive than anyone I’d ever… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
The disparagement of empirical evidence in favor of a metaphysical world of illusion has its origin in the conflicy between the emancipated… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
By an individual being, whatever one's metaphysical doctrine, one means an unique being, that is, a being which is alone of its… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage. — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
“Some ghosts or felt presences may simply be the essence of another living person projected outward while sleeping.” — Doug Dillon Copy Share Image
“One of the basic tenets of all metaphysical systems of thought is that we create our own reality in accord with our… — Mary Greer Copy Share Image
“Our bonfire burns brightly, alighting our hot harvest. Scarce seeds of winter's heat, as its first dawn inflames. Sprouting into a plant… — Susan L. Marshall Copy Share Image
My mother was religious; she was knowledgeable about mythology and scriptures; she could tell the metaphysical nuances and make the story come… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
“...It was then, for the first time, that she understood above all her virtues what was in command was the vanity of… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
My comic sense, although deliberately Americanized, is, in its intent, much closer related to the crazy wisdom of Zen monks and the… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I think the metaphysical world is something Lisa and I have always been interested in. We were encouraged from a very young… — Jessica Origliasso Copy Share Image
There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. It is a disease that, like influenza, falls on all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“According to Carnap,… "reality"is a metaphysical term for which there is no legitimate use… We are interested in other people's loves and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I feel closer ties and more intimate bonds with certain characters in books, with certain images I’ve seen in engravings, than with… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Answers are shooting stars in a nebulous firmament. Every burst of outspoken enlightenment fails to betray the vast timeless riddles of their… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
If an opinion can eventually go to the determination of a practical belief, it, in so far, becomes itself a practical belief;… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
In the realm of science, all attempts to find any evidence of supernatural beings, of metaphysical concepts, as God, immortality, infinity, etc… — Charles Proteus Steinmetz Copy Share Image
I can say-not as a patriotic bromide, but with full knowledge of the necessary metaphysical, epistemological , ethical, political and esthetic roots-that… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
However, within the limits of the human, it is important to recognise our common humanity. I think that a perspective based on… — Alison Assiter Copy Share Image
“We have been born into a certain Culture, at a certain phase of its organic development, we have certain gifts. These condition… — Francis Parker Yockey Copy Share Image
Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of Western metaphysical… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
It [9/11] transcended the political and moved into the metaphysical. There was a kind of cosmic, demonic quality of mind at work… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
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