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
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
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
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 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
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
What's more unnerving than magnetism, ghosts, and unpurified water? Gadgetmongers who purport to protect us from metaphysical monsters that go bump in… — Chris Hardwick 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
I don't think Kant's theory looks bad to people except insofar as they have misunderstood it (for instance, as heartless and ironheaded,… — Allen W. Wood 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 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
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
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
“There is the subtler music, the clear light Where time burns back about th'eternal embers. We are not shut from the thousand… — Ezra pound 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
“Attaching epistemic significance to metaphysical intuitions is anti-naturalist for two reasons. First, it requires ignoring the fact that science, especially physics, has… — James Ladyman 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
To accept the fact that, after fertilization has taken place, a new human has come into being is no longer a matter… — Jerome Lejeune Copy Share Image
In reality no food is valued solely for its nutritive power and no garment or house solely for the protection it affords… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The relevant features of scientific practice often have mundane explanations which don't point to any deep metaphysical moral. (Thus it would simply… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
Success is a sort of metaphysical experience. I live exactly as I did before - only on a slightly bigger scale. Naturally,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I've had years of bizarre hallucinogenic magical experiences in which I believed I had communicated with entities that may well have been… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“Philosophers can never hope finally to formulate these metaphysical first principles. Weakness of insight and deficiencies of language stand in the way… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Given that the 'common sense' of many contemporary philosophers is shaped and supplemented by ideas from classical physics, the locus of most… — James Ladyman Copy Share Image
The Overman will himself be a nihilist in the (good) sense of rejecting any metaphysical or religious grounding for truth and value,… — David E. Cooper Copy Share Image
I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Science is wonderful at destroying metaphysical answers, but incapable of providing substitute ones. Science takes away foundations without providing a replacement. Whether… — Hilary Putnam Copy Share Image
“Maybe the siren was was a fire truck? Mercer couldn't see one anywhere, but like some bounding St. Bernard of the metaphysical,… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“Science and Spirituality are two sides of the same coin and we cannot separate one from the other. Science is trying to… — Thomas Vazhakunnathu Copy Share Image
There are times when I can find myself in a book, too, for two or three hours. But afterward I have such… — David Ignatow Copy Share Image
In strict science, all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness. Shall we fear to cool our love by mining… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, 'The Clock' is more than a movie or even… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
“A metaphysical understanding of what the world is, how it works, and how it all fits together, in general and abstract terms,… — Stephen Mumford Copy Share Image
“Ushikawa always saw himself as a realist, and he actually was. Metaphysical speculation wasn't his thing. If something really existed you, had… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Beyond the nation, we acknowledge those eternal and immutable principles in the name of which one must be ready to fight and… — Corneliu Zelea Codreanu Copy Share Image
Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this:… — Alan Watts 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
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 you say to yourself, 'I am going to have a pleasant visit or a pleasant journey,' you are literally sending elements… — Prentice Mulford 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 person in my life, the memories we'd shared often felt like phantoms. Who was this person I once loved? Did she still really exist? The answer, on a metaphysical level…” quote by Alexander Weinstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bb3/alexander-weinstein-17341_answers_when-i-wrote-the-story-the-cartographers_2172738.jpg)
