“we can only re-establish metaphysics today by returning to realism pure and simple.” — Étienne Gilson Copy Share Image
“People believe in miracles, precisely because they don’t believe in miracles.” — Syed Buali Gillani Copy Share Image
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Oh Time, you arise with parting! [О Время, ты от разлуки!] - Vladislav Khalyavkin, The Operator” — Vladislav Khalyavkin Copy Share Image
Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“The universe will use any vehicle and any medium to communicate with us. Our job is to be alert and to listen.” — Elaine Seiler Copy Share Image
“Everything in the seen world is a dim reflection or representation of the unseen world.” — Dan Pedersen Copy Share Image
He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“What resists phenomenology within us--natural being, the 'barbarian' source Schelling spoke of--cannot remain outside phenomenology. The philosopher must bear his shadow, which… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
I read a book in the late 1990s called The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, by Erich Fromm, and it had a profound… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
“We are taught to fear the unknown, but what if the unknown is whatever we want it to be? What if the… — Natalia Beshqoy Copy Share Image
“For Heidegger, the central question concerning Being is not the everyday activities or practices of human beings, but rather what such activities… — Barbara Bolt Copy Share Image
“The biggest question, transcending physics and the realm of how he was able to do the extraordinary things he did, remained firmly… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
God tries his votaries through and through but never beyond endurance. He gives them strength enough to go through the ordeal he… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“The metaphysicians of Tlön are not looking for truth, nor even for an approximation of it; they are after a kind of… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Sentinels of trees breathe life into bodies of earthly flesh As their mighty arms reach to the stars we join in their… — Ramon Ravenswood Copy Share Image
“When one commits to a spiritual teacher, one automatically benefits from the energetic field of that teacher. All one has to do… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
The metaphysics of substance. The strange feeling which comes over us when we sense: this is skin - this is bone -… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
In the case of Anathem, most of the research had to do with philosophy and metaphysics. Reading this sort of thing has… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
My personal, metaphysical belief is Vedanta, which is that ultimately there is a singular consciousness. It's like a Hindu metaphysics, that basically… — Daniel Pinchbeck 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
“Comrades in the struggle! The position of modern man is not merely lamentable; one might even say that there is no condition,… — Victor Pelevin Copy Share Image
“But if one decides to start with Descartes and finish with Aristotle, and to employ an idealist method while shamelessly making use… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share Image
“Back in the past metaphysical realisation needed only the will of realisation. Later realisation also needed initiation. Even later initiation already presupposed… — András László Copy Share Image
When the faculties of mind find their poise in truth, all lesser ideas die or disappear through a process of transmutation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Energy defines life not flesh and blood. WE are infinite energies experiencing infinity. Through a finite aperture. — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“One can never "fall" in love, you must rise to it's level of consciousness. Love is not a feeling, it's a state… — T.C. Carrier Copy Share Image
I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“The universe is a gigantic amusement park in which we can have a ride or two.” — Stefan Emunds Copy Share Image
I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“The key to the world is the key to your self and the key to yourself is the key to the world.” — Iva Kenaz Copy Share Image
“Theology, philosophy, metaphysics, and quantum physics are merely ways for God to have his smart people believe in him” — Jeremy Aldana Copy Share Image
“This cause, therefore, of all existing things cannot be any one of them.” — Plotinus Copy Share Image
Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A long time ago, Descartes sad, “I think, therefore I am.” But if you are not thinking, what? — Seungsahn Copy Share Image