Best Metaphysical Lines
192 Metaphysical quotes by 149 unique authors
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The American Indians, the ancient Indians would say, the metaphysical ones would say: "Power binds us together." Power, for a while, makes us what we…
— Frederick Lenz
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Is the world ruled by strict laws or not? This question I regard as metaphysical. The laws we find are always hypotheses; which means that…
— Karl Popper
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What is enthralling and illuminating about The Metaphysical Club is its portraits of individuals and their milieus. Menand is wonderfully deft at evoking a climate…
— George Scialabba
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In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones,…
— John Fowles
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Love is metaphysical gravity.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone... truly,…
— Wayne Coyne
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Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the…
— Hans Hofmann
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Prayer's important, not just as some kind of a metaphysical exercise, but I think it's a way to refresh one's own mind and motive. If…
— Mike Huckabee
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Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his…
— Aldous Huxley
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From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
— Aldous Huxley
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It is thus necessary to examine all things according to their essence, to infer from every species such true and well established propositions as may…
— Maimonides
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A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in…
— Karl Marx
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I've had years of bizarre hallucinogenic magical experiences in which I believed I had communicated with entities that may well have been disassociated parts of…
— Alan Moore
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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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One of my books is a hallucinogen, an aphrodisiac, a mood elevator, an intellectual garage door opener, and a metaphysical trash compactor. They'll do everything…
— Tom Robbins
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A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, 'The Clock' is more than a movie or even a work of…
— Jerry Saltz
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The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty…
— Erwin Schrodinger
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The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
— Alan Watts
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Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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What's more unnerving than magnetism, ghosts, and unpurified water? Gadgetmongers who purport to protect us from metaphysical monsters that go bump in the New Age…
— Chris Hardwick
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Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.
— Ayn Rand
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The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine Regulator. It is the concept of an actual, real world…
— Emma Goldman
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You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.
— Alan Watts
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Here's an example: someone says, "Master, please hand me the knife," and he hands them the knife, blade first. "Please give me the other end,"…
— Alan Watts
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I have the satisfaction of knowing that it is all right; that everybody else is one way or other served in much the same way--either…
— Herman Melville
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