The distinctive contribution that metaphysics makes to our understanding of reality is first that it considers questions about features of reality that… — L.A. Paul Copy Share Image
Love created, thought, thought created energy, energy created light and light created the universe. — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“Zsoronga, Sorweel was beginning to realize, possessed the enviable ability to yoke his conviction to his need — to believe, absolutely, whatever… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
An ideal and flawless freedom, "complete freedom", enabling without disabling, is I believe an oxymoron in metaphysics as much as it is… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
“The most perfect and satisfactory knowledge is that of perception but this is limited to the absolutely particular, to the individual. The… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Physical reality does not require that we be pleased with its mechanism; we must see the implications of a theory for what… — Kevin Michel Copy Share Image
“Q. But it seems to me there are circumstances that simply induce one to have negative emotions! A. This is one of… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
The mystery of sound is mysticism; the harmony of life is religion. The knowledge of vibrations is metaphysics, the analysis of atoms… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
“. . . waves of desert heat . . . I must’ve passed out, because when I woke up I was shivering… — Ryan Boudinot Copy Share Image
“Philosophy is metaphysics. Metaphysics thinks beings as a whole―the world, man, God―with respect to Being, with respect to the belonging together of… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
There's a power that brings us to things, and there's a power that lets us move away from things, from people, places,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“...knowing about your past lives is worse than useless if that knowledge doesn't bring you some kind of positive change or healing.” — Lianne Downey Copy Share Image
“The word Universe is made up of two Latin words- uni (meaning "one") and versus (meaning "turned into"). It literally means "one… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“Our critique is not opposed to the *dogmatic procedure* of reason in its pure knowledge as science (for science must always be… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Everyone's life changes when they meet their Obi-Wan & their Yoda, or their Morpheus & their Oracle; those who help remove the veil.” — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
“The sun symbolizes the Divine intelligence; the empty vastness of space symbolizes the Divine All-Possibility and also the Divine immutability; a bird… — Osman Bakar Copy Share Image
Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us. — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life; otherwise forget it. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it. — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Physics is unable to stand on its own feet, but needs a metaphysics on which to support itself, whatever fine airs it… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
