Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
“If you feel like you don't fit into the world you inherited it is because you were born to help create a… — Ross Caligiuri Copy Share Image
“Live your life by the light of day. Enlightenment lurks not in the shadows of the night.” — Thomas Zman Copy Share Image
Kant certainly was sympathetic with the metaphysical tradition of rational theology that he criticized. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
The ultimate metaphysical ground is the creative advance into novelty. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I don't feel there is any spiritual or metaphysical justification for turning our backs on human suffering. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“A quick enlightenment tends to do more harm than good. Wise may easily become unwise.” — Iva Kenaz Copy Share Image
“A conscious being without free will is simply a metaphysical absurdity.” — Raymond M. Smullyan Copy Share Image
Metaphysical thinking will always no doubt be a strong element in her mentality, and it is to be hoped that she will… — Sri Aurobindo 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 things that had filled his days seemed now like a nursery parody of life, or like the wrangles of medieval schoolmen… — Edith Wharton 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
“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
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
The pictures achieve something rarely articulated about the metaphysical state of swimming: The body, immersed, feels amplified, heavier and lighter at the… — Leanne Shapton Copy Share Image
I try to steer away from high metaphysical belief because I think we humans do best when we realize that we don't… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
I really wanted to be able to make the music that acknowledged the metaphysical aspect of extreme sports because when I started… — Taraka Larson 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“As long as I have questions and no answers I’ll keep on writing. How do you start at the beginning, if things… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“they would be astonished to discover the seriously German problem that we are dealing with, a vortex and a turning-point at the… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
I submit that tennis is the most beautiful sport there is, and also the most demanding…Basketball comes close, but it's a team… — David Foster Wallace 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
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
The only method of restoring the natural equality of dignity between men and women, lies in the demolishment of that elaborate theological… — Ellen Battelle Dietrick 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