“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
poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you… — Annie Dillard 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
Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Not all the subtilties of metaphysics can make me doubt a moment of the immortality of the soul, and of a beneficent… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Tantra is spiritual, not religious. It deals with the spirit. Religion is just an applied body of doctrines that's believed or not… — Frederick Lenz 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, said the late nineteenth-century idealist philosopher Bradley, is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct; but metaphysics… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
“He is romantic—romantic,” he repeated. “And that is very bad—very bad. . . . Very good, too,” he added. “But is he?”… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
A system of philosophy, or metaphysics, is a union of a world view and a life view in one harmonious, complete, integral… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
“We also find *physics*, in the widest sense of the word, concerned with the explanation of phenomena in the world; but it… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Nothing could be more alien to contemplation than the cogito ergo sum of Descartes. “I think, therefore I am.” This is the… — Thomas Merton 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
“Thus with the question of the Being of truth and the necessity of presupposing it, just as with the question of the… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“The 'Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics' speaks to possibility and it speaks to opportunity. By appreciating its existence and adopting the paradigm… — Kevin Michel Copy Share Image
“The I think, I am , is, since Descartes, the basic mistake of all knowledge; thinking is not my thinking, and being… — Friedrich Schelling Copy Share Image
Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological… — Wilhelm Dilthey Copy Share Image
In nature there is a fundamental unity running through all the diversity we see about us. Religions are given to mankind so… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The unrest which keeps the never stopping clock of metaphysics going is the thought that the nonexistence of this world is just… — William James Copy Share Image
I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in… — Anonymous 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
“Truth is, something exists, and everything exists for a reason. Regardless if the reason is known or unknown, knowable or unknowable, reason… — John K. Brown Copy Share Image
The states of consciousness are all that psychology needs to do her work with. Metaphysics or theology may prove the Soul to… — William James Copy Share Image
I'm a humanist. I'm an observer. I have a very scientific mind. I believe metaphysics and science absolutely blended are more the… — Meredith Brooks 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
When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics. — Voltaire 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
Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them. — Aristotle 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
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
“Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings… — Martin Heidegger 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
“Conscious Evolution "Conscious evolution inspires in us a mysterious and humble awareness that we have been created by this awesome process of… — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
Science now says 98% of our atoms change out every year. The 2% that stays the same must be part of the… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
