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192 Metaphysical quotes by 149 unique authors

What are we here for? Does the great metaphysical nut revolve around that? Well, I'll crack it for you, right now. What are we here… — Brion Gysin
That so many manage to accommodate belief systems encompassing both the natural and the supernatural is a testament not to the compatibility of science and… — Susan Jacoby
In America the taint of sectarianism lies broad upon the land. Not content with acknowledging the supremacy as the Diety, and with erecting temples in… — James F. Cooper
There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that only the novel… — Milan Kundera
The metaphysical image that a definite epoch forges of the world has the same structure as what the world immediately understands to be appropriate as… — Carl Schmitt
Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet. — Ntozake Shange
My point is, however, that churches do promote beliefs that would more appropriately find a place in a context of intellectual debate. They wind up… — Robert M. Price
We cannot ultimately specify the grounds (either metaphysical or logical or empirical) upon which we hold that our knowledge is true. Being committed to such… — Michael Polanyi
Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical. — Robert Smithson
THE ULTIMATE METAPHYSICAL SECRET, if we dare state it so simply, is that there are no boundaries in the universe. Boundaries are illusions, products not… — Ken Wilber
There is a philosophy that says that if something is unobservable -- unobservable in principle -- it is not part of science. If there is… — Leonard Susskind
The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical. — Barnett Newman
Evolution is true, it happens, it is the way the world is, and we too are one of its products. This does not mean that… — Simon Conway Morris
Belief must be something different from a mixture of opinions about God and the world, and of precepts for one life or for two. Piety… — Friedrich Schleiermacher
There are times when I can find myself in a book, too, for two or three hours. But afterward I have such an urge to… — David Ignatow
I studied mind-cure, or metaphysical healing, which strikes at the root of disease; I went into hypnotism, mesmerism, and phreno-magnetism, and the od force-I don't… — Edward Eggleston
Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture. — Johan Huizinga
Thought is the creative power, or the impelling force which causes the creative power to act; thinking in a Certain Way will bring riches to… — Wallace D. Wattles
The Cabala may be defined to be a system of philosophy which embraces certain mystical interpretations of Scripture, and metaphysical and spiritual beings... Much use… — Albert Mackey
This can never become popular, and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for fine-spun arguments in favour of useful truths make just as little… — Immanuel Kant
Experimental psychology itself has, it is true, now and again suffered relapse into a metaphysical treatment of its problems. — Wilhelm Wundt
The old metaphysical prejudice that man 'always thinks' has not yet entirely disappeared. I am myself inclined to hold that man really thinks very little… — Wilhelm Wundt
The point is that (little-t) truth is a matter of definition relative to the grid one is using at the moment, and that (capital-T) Truth,… — Malaclypse the Younger
In turbulent times, in times of great change, people head for the two extremes: fundamentalism and personal, spiritual experience...With no membership lists or even a… — John Naisbitt
We do not yet trust the unknown powers of thought. Whence came all these tools, inventions, book laws, parties, kingdoms? Out of the invisible world,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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