Best Metaphysical Thoughts
192 Metaphysical quotes by 149 unique authors
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Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by a pool in…
— Herman Melville
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Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every…
— Alan Watts
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Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect…
— Haruki Murakami
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Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.
— Carlos Castaneda
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If you're honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you're forced to separate what is right from what is merely legal.…
— Tom Robbins
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One fast move or I'm gone,' I realize, gone the way of the last three years of drunken hopelessness which is a physical and spiritual…
— Jack Kerouac
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I don't believe in god, so I don't have to make elaborately sounded structures. ... Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you.…
— Frank O'Hara
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To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction.
— Fernando Pessoa
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Any black person who clings to the misguided notion that white people represent the embodiment of all that is evil and black people all that…
— Bell Hooks
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We could speak about the meaning of life vis-a-vis non-consequential/deontological theories, apodictic transformation schemata, the incoherence of exemplification, metaphysical realism, Cartesian interactive dualism, revised non…
— Maira Kalman
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From the scientific view, the theory of karma may be a metaphysical assumption -- but it is no more so than the assumption that all…
— Dalai Lama
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The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of…
— Aberjhani
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It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things or the inner…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a scalpel for excising…
— Stephen Batchelor
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What is it that makes a person insist passionately on the existence of metaphysical realities that can be neither demonstrated nor refuted? (176)
— Stephen Batchelor
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I will tell you that there have been no failures in my life. I don't want to sound like some metaphysical queen,but there have been…
— Oprah Winfrey
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In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might be far chancier than…
— Michael Behe
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Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy.…
— Karen Armstrong
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The Rudderless World is not shaped by vague metaphysical Forces. It is not God who kills the Children. Not Fate that butchers them or Destiny…
— Alan Moore
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Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. How many hours are in a…
— C.S. Lewis
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Metaphysical speculation is independent of the physical validity of the Big Bang itself and is irrelevant to our understanding of it.
— Lawrence M. Krauss
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By then running had entered the realm of the metaphysical. First there came the action of running, and accompanying it there was this entity known…
— Haruki Murakami
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Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which…
— Isaac Newton
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Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.
— Aberjhani
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Human rebellion ends in metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary.
— Albert Camus
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