Metaphysically Quotes
12 quotes by 11 authors
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History is not the past. It is the stories we tell about the past. How we tell these stories - triumphantly or self-critically, metaphysically or…
— Grace Lee Boggs
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The man who is thus outside the confines of every value-combination, and has become the exclusive representative of an individual value, is metaphysically an outcast,…
— Hermann Broch
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Unless we proceed cautiously, there might well arise a few generations of mystics who conceive of the orgone metaphysically, divorced from non-living nature and who…
— Wilhelm Reich
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Why are there organized beings? Why is there something rather than nothing? Here again, I fully understand a scientist who refuses to ask it. He…
— Etienne Gilson
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People like ourselves may see nothing wondrous in writing, but our anthropologists know how strange and magical it appears to a purely oral people -…
— Neil Postman
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I feel completely detached from any country, any group. I am a metaphysically displaced person
— Emile M. Cioran
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The object becomes aesthetically significant when it becomes metaphysically significant.
— Joseph Campbell
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It is the metaphysically given that must be accepted: it cannot be changed. It is the man-made that must never be accepted uncritically: it must…
— Ayn Rand
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The mind wants to live forever, or to learn a very good reason why not. The mind wants the world to return its love, or…
— Annie Dillard
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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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Psychologically, the choice "to think or not" is the choice "to focus or not." Existentially, the choice "to focus or not" is the choice "to…
— Ayn Rand
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I picture John physically as someone youthful who made a lot, but I feel him more as an energy, more metaphysically.
— George Harrison
Who Wrote These Metaphysically Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 12 Metaphysically Quotes as follows: