Cobwebs Quote by Edward Abbey Download Open image “Metaphysics is a cobweb that the mind weaves around things.” — Edward Abbey ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cobwebs Inspirational Metaphysics Mind Philosophy Psychology
Metaphysics is the study of how to shift the self. How to get outside the self-reflection and to just gaze with awe and wonder… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Metaphysics is the clearing house for all fundamental philosophical problems. — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science, or complement of sciences, exclusively occupied with mind. — Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet Copy Share Image
To gauge the understanding and insight that metaphysics provides is to ask whether, in the final analysis, it helps us to cope with our… — Rudolph Rummel Copy Share Image
“Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. The fundamental conceptions of psychology are practically very clear to us, but theoretically… — William James Copy Share Image
Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Metaphysics is the study of the most general nature and basic structure of reality, and therefore the concepts of metaphysics, concepts like time, space,… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“But why, the questioner insists, why do people like you pretend to love uninhabited country so much? Why this cult of wilderness? Why the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Me, I'm living under a sword too, as Jack may have told you. An old wino's disease, which could lay me in the grave… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Pushing yourself to extremes blows out the cobwebs of trusted habit. It shakes up what you know to be reliably safe and substitutes the… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
I did four or five years in telly, and by the end of it was drained. I was a bit sick of myself. I… — Matthew Macfadyen Copy Share Image
Fearless--the cobweb swings from the ceiling-- Indolent Housewife--in Daisies--lain! — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
When I stand in a library where is all the recorded wit of the world, but none of the recording, a mere accumulated, and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
The true doctrine of omnipresence is, that God reappears with all his parts in every moss and cobweb. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Science was tearing through the 'fine-spun ecclesiastical cobwebs' to behold a new cosmos, in which our Earth is merely an 'eccentric speck' - a… — Adrian Desmond Copy Share Image
Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the desks—cutting loose debris that's… — David Allen Copy Share Image
The human mind is a powerful thing in many ways, but in others it's endlessly fragile—it takes only a single moment of pure terror… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
Let the clean air blow the cobwebs from your body. Air is medicine. — Lillian Russell Copy Share Image
Habits begin as offhanded remarks, ideas and images. And then, layer upon layer, through practice, they grow from cobwebs into cables that shackle or… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
