As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality.… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is easy enough to say, I do not believe in God. For God permits all things to be said of Him… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“The *second task* consists in distinguishing the mode of knowing operative in ontology as science of Being, and this requires us to… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“When my son speaks of playing sports, I've always told him: playing on the team is great, but aspire to be the… — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
“When in 1863 Thomas Huxley coined the phrase 'Man's Place in Nature,' it was to name a short collection of his essays… — Homer W. Smith Copy Share Image
“As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. For many are the… — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“What is this slow blue dream of living, and this fevered death by dreaming?” — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Hey, metaphysics seminar is on the roof. Just take the elevator up and keep walking until you hit the sidewalk. Anything is… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Having grown up knowing the formerly-mentioned historical figures are part of my family lineage, I was interested to learn that at least… — Hope Bradford Copy Share Image
Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la métaphysique When… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Our mania for rational explanations obviously has its roots in our fear of metaphysics, for the two were always hostile brothers. Hence,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“A professor from UBC observed that he agreed with Alexander Pope about the ultimate unreality of evil. Seen from the highest point… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The religion of the short poem, in every age and in every literature, has a single commandment: Less is always more. The… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
“All three explanations—eternal life, reincarnation, and nothingness—are descriptions of the same reality.” — John K. Brown Copy Share Image
“Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal. -- from The Sexual Side of Spirituality” — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
The hymns of David, the plays of Shakespeare, the metaphysics of Descartes, the crimes of Borgia, the virtues of Antonine, the atheism… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“Three things have a limited threshold: Time, pain, and death. While truth, love, and knowledge – Are boundless.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Nature is self-renewing as it adjusts to maintain balance. Nature becomes even more vibrant as it yields to allow recycling. It is… — Franklin Gillette Copy Share Image
Metaphysics notwithstanding, I also insert myself in my fictions for no loftier purpose than to give me pleasure: to see myself performing… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
“Everything 'happens'. People can 'do' nothing. From the time we are born to the time we die things happen, happen, happen, and we think… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
