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192 Metaphysical quotes by 149 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction. — Fernando Pessoa
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
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
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
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
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
[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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Metaphysical speculation is independent of the physical validity of the Big Bang itself and is irrelevant to our understanding of it. — Lawrence M. Krauss
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
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
Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks. — Aberjhani
Human rebellion ends in metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary. — Albert Camus

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