Metaphysical Quotes

192 Metaphysical quotes by 149 unique authors

It is in this mutual dependence of the functions and the aid which they reciprocally lend one another that are founded the laws which determine… — Georges Cuvier
Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it. — Claes Oldenburg
Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or for the exercise… — Joseph Story
Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to… — Thomas Jefferson
Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history. — Albert Camus
The great mystery of our metaphysical situation, that God is nearer to us than we are ourselves, is manifest in the fact that we cannot… — Dietrich von Hildebrand
The pictures achieve something rarely articulated about the metaphysical state of swimming: The body, immersed, feels amplified, heavier and lighter at the same time. Weightless… — Unknown Author
I don’t know about ‘common sense opinion’ by the way. It seems to me that the office of common sense is to keep us from… — Peter van Inwagen
Art alone makes life possible – this is how radically I should like to formulate it. I would say that without art man is inconceivable… — Joseph Beuys
The world is full of burled and gnarly knobs on which you can hang a metaphysical system. If you must. — Edward Abbey
I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a simple view of… — Edmund Burke
The disparagement of empirical evidence in favor of a metaphysical world of illusion has its origin in the conflicy between the emancipated individual of bourgeois… — Max Horkheimer
If the world is to contain a public space, it cannot be erected for one generation and planned for the living only; it must transcend… — Hannah Arendt
The national characteristics... the restless metaphysical curiosity, the tenderness of good living and the passionate individualism. This is the invisible constant in a place with… — Lawrence Durrell
Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of Western metaphysical dualism, many of… — Bell Hooks
Small objects, like the Walkman first and then the iPod, create bubbles of space around us that enable us to have a metaphysical space that… — Paola Antonelli
By what he chooses to present and by how he presents it, any author expresses his fundamental, metaphysical values. — Ayn Rand
I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not… — Isaac Newton
Everything has two aspects; the current aspect, which we see nearly always and which ordinary men see, and the ghostly and metaphysical aspect, which only… — Giorgio de Chirico
It is possible to be a meta-physician without believing in a transcendent reality; for we shall see that many metaphysical utterances are due to the… — A.J. Ayer
It is the basic, metaphysical fact of man's nature -- the connection between his survival and his use of reason -- that capitalism recognizes and… — Ayn Rand
The idea of buddha mind is not purely a concept or a theoretical, metaphysical idea. It is something extremely real that we can experience ourselves.… — Chogyam Trungpa
One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions. — Arthur Koestler
Make something, a kind of object, which as it changes or falls apart (dies as it were) or increases in its parts (grows as it… — Jasper Johns
Of course the sands of Present Time are running out from under our feet. And why not? The Great Conundrum: 'What are we here for?'… — Brion Gysin

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