Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
“Your birth is existence breathing out. Your life is the conversation with a message. Your death is existence breathing in.” — Franklin Gillette Copy Share Image
Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an… — F. H. Bradley Copy Share Image
“Magick is the manipulation of the Laws of Cause-and-Effect in accordance with one's Will, via states of Higher Consciousness.” — J.Adam Snyder Copy Share Image
So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world. — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
“Origin of man now proved.—Metaphysics must flourish.—He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.” — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind in the senses. Metaphysics soars up… — Giambattista Vico Copy Share Image
Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
For Emily Dickinson every philosophical idea was a potential lover. Metaphysics is the realm of eternal seduction of the spirit by ideas. — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into… — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
“Oh Love, whenever I hear your name, I hear the heartbeat of every lifetime all at once. I feel the heartbeat of… — Nicola An 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
“If you believe that you are NOT omnipresent, omniscient and ultimately omnipotent – you are delusional. If you believe that you are… — Kevin Michel Copy Share Image
Within a Metaphysics of Quality, science is a set of static intellectual patterns describing this reality, but the patterns are not the… — Robert M. Pirsig 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
“We are often given pills or fluids to help remedy illness, yet little has been taught to us about the power of… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Epistemology now flourishes with various complementary approaches. This includes formal epistemology, experimental philosophy, cognitive science and psychology, including relevant brain science, and… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
“But then one voice arose from the babbling clamor to silence them all. It was a voice he hadn’t heard in a… — Casey Fisher Copy Share Image
“In fact, meta- and particle physicists have more in common than one might suppose: both tug, if in slightly different directions, at… — Tim Mackintosh-Smith Copy Share Image
“Among the objections to the reality of objects of sense, there is one which is derived from the apparent difference between matter… — Betrand Russell Copy Share Image
The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
“Historically mystics have claimed that for a true understanding of reality metaphysics is too “scientific”. Metaphysics is not reality. Metaphysics is names… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image