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
Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I've got deeper journeys to take. Metaphysical journeys. Journeys to see Christ. Shaman journeys. It's what I've been elected by God to… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
I have come to the conclusion that Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research programme... — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
History is powerful stuff. One day your world is fine. The next day it's knocked for a metaphysical loop. Was Napoleon really… — Henry Bromell Copy Share Image
One of my books is a hallucinogen, an aphrodisiac, a mood elevator, an intellectual garage door opener, and a metaphysical trash compactor.… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The Rudderless World is not shaped by vague metaphysical Forces. It is not God who kills the Children. Not Fate that butchers… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
What happens with DMT is you leap over all the barriers in the first few seconds. Unlike mushrooms where over hours and… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
A pleasant comedy, which paints the manners of the age, and exposes a faithful picture of nature, is a durable work, and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Creation out of absolute nothing is a metaphysical quagmire for theists anyway, since nothing must at least have the potentiality for becoming… — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
It can be a necessary conceptual truth that pains are painful without this ruling out the physicalist thesis that immaterial minds are… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. The adventure is a metaphysical one: it is a way of approaching life… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I think that when a film does its job, it poses questions rather than gives answers. It should act as a frustrating… — Aunjanue Ellis Copy Share Image
Without the cross the Discipline of Confession would be merely therapeutic. But it is so much more. It involves an objective [a… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Is the world ruled by strict laws or not? This question I regard as metaphysical. The laws we find are always hypotheses;… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
By then running had entered the realm of the metaphysical. First there came the action of running, and accompanying it there was… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I discovered suddenly that alienation, exploitation of man by man, under-nourishment, relegated to the background metaphysical evil which is a luxury. — Jean-Paul Sartre 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
Utility is a metaphysical concept of impregnable circularity; utility is the quality in commodities that makes individuals want to buy them, and… — Joan Robinson 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
In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant. — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
In a religiously uniform culture, it is natural for people to take for granted the truth of the prevailing religion and its… — Richard Posner 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
“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
“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
“...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 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
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
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
“it’s a metaphysical choice that science makes when it states that with the help of our concepts we can discover the ultimate… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are… — Wayne Coyne 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
It is the basic, metaphysical fact of man's nature -- the connection between his survival and his use of reason -- that… — Ayn Rand 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
Small objects, like the Walkman first and then the iPod, create bubbles of space around us that enable us to have a… — Paola Antonelli Copy Share Image
I think there is a metaphysical problem of the relation between mind and body. Thinking that there is no metaphysical dimension to… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
“Work as a metaphysical act, the very “act of being” must be distinguished from labor; work as a remunerative economic invention must… — J. Phillip Johnson Copy Share Image