Metaphysical Quotes - Page 12

• The political is replacing the metaphysical as the characteristic mode of grasping reality.

  Harvey Cox

  Reality, Political, Politician

  Harvey Cox (1966). “The Secular City”

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• Probably there was a beginning-it is a metaphysical question, worthy a theologian-species have begun and ended-but the analogy is faint and distant.

  Charles Lyell

  Science, Analogies, Worthy

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• Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.

  Claes Oldenburg

  Cities, Chicago, Strange

  Claes Oldenburg (1969). “Proposals for monuments and buildings, 1965-69”

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• You need to put easy, nice, tranquil thoughts in your head before you go to bed. You know what I do? I read metaphysical books. The good stuff stays in your brain once you go under.

  Cristina Saralegui

  Nice, Book, Brain

  "Cristina: A Diet for High Energy". Interview with Candace A. Wedlan, articles.latimes.com. February 19, 1997.

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• There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that only the novel can seize.

  Milan Kundera

  Philosophy, Problem, Existence

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• Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.

  Benjamin Lee Whorf

  Europe, Verbs, Nouns

  Benjamin Lee Whorf, John Bissell Carroll (1964). “Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf”, p.61, MIT Press

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• You've got this guy who refuses to die for some reason whether it be a physical or metaphysical reason or spiritual reason so you can do anything. You can kill off anybody and you can still bring them back because he's kind of half there and half in reality, you know?

  Josh Brolin

  Spiritual, Reality, Guy

  "Josh Brolin On Set Interview JONAH HEX – Read or Listen Here". Interview with Steve 'Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. May 13, 2010.

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• An act of meditation is actually an act of faith--of faith in your spirit, in your own potential. Faith is the basis of meditation. Not of faith in something outside you--a metaphysical buddha, an unattainable ideal, or someone else's words. The faith is in yourself, in your own 'buddha nature.' You too can be a buddha, an awakened being that lives and responds in a wise, creative, and compassionate way.

  Martine Batchelor

  Faith, Wise, Creative

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• Men propound mathematical theorems in besieged cities, conduct metaphysical arguments in condemned cells, make jokes on the scaffold, discuss a new poem while advancing to the walls of Quebec, and comb their hair at Thermopylae. This is not panache; it is our nature.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wall, Men, Hair

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• In America the taint of sectarianism lies broad upon the land. Not content with acknowledging the supremacy as the Diety, and with erecting temples in his honor, where all can bow down with reverence, the pride and vanity of human reason enter into and pollute our worship, and the houses that should be of God and for God, alone, where he is to be honored with submissive faith, are too often merely schools of metaphysical and useless distinctions. The nation is sectarian, rather than Christian.

  James F. Cooper

  Christian, Lying, School

  "The American Democrat: The Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, p. 207, April 1, 2010.

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• The artist should preach nothing-not even his own autonomy. His art should speak its own truth, and in so doing it will be in harmony with every other kind of truth- moral, metaphysical, mystical.

  Thomas Merton

  Art, Moral, Kind

  Thomas Merton, Patrick Hart (1985). “The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton”, p.378, New Directions Publishing

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• In a religiously uniform culture, it is natural for people to take for granted the truth of the prevailing religion and its associated metaphysical propositions.

  Richard Posner

  Spiritual, Atheist, Science

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• I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there's a good possibility that love is what I'd call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Love, Together, Radiation

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• The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical.

  Barnett Newman

  Thinking, Painting, Problem

  Barnett Newman, John Philip O'Neill (1992). “Barnett Newman: Selected Writings and Interviews”, p.259, Univ of California Press

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• We do not yet trust the unknown powers of thought. Whence came all these tools, inventions, book laws, parties, kingdoms? Out of the invisible world, through a few brains. The arts and institutions of men are created out of thought. The powers that make the capitalist are metaphysical, the force of method and force of will makes trade, and builds towns.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Book, Men

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• Science, art, learning and metaphysical research all have their proper functions in life, but if you seek to blend them, you destroy their individual characteristics until, in time, you eliminate the spiritual, for instance, from the religious altogether.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Religious, Art

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3223, Manonmani Publishers

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• The process of reading is not a half sleep, but in the highest sense, an exercise, a gymnast's struggle: that the reader is to do something for him or herself, must be on the alert, just construct indeed the poem, argument, history, metaphysical essay--the text furnishing the hints, the clue, the start, the framework.

  Walt Whitman

  Struggle, Reading, Sleep

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• If one regards life and death as natural processes, the metaphysical dread vanishes, and one obtains peace of mind.

  Peter Wessel Zapffe

  Life And Death, Mind, Natural

  "To Be a Human Being". Documentary, 1990.

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• Do not commit spiritual suicide through a passion for discussing metaphysical subtleties.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Suicide, Spiritual, Passion

  Charles Spurgeon (2011). “All of Grace (Authentic Original Classic): An urgent Word with Those Who Are Seeking Salvation by the Lord Jesus Christ”, p.63, Destiny Image Publishers

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• I argue, based on metaphysical and physical considerations, that we should think of the fundamental parts of the world as a mix of intrinsic natures, rather like a paint-pot filled with a rainbow of colors, loosely mixed to give a richly varied, spatiotemporally inseparable, spread of qualities, and that this mixture is what gives rise to ordinary reality.

  L.A. Paul

  Reality, Thinking, Color

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.

  John Keats

  Love, Poet, Impossibility

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• However, within the limits of the human, it is important to recognise our common humanity. I think that a perspective based on common human needs has the most chance of being accepted and this does not depend on any particular metaphysical outlook.

  Alison Assiter

  Thinking, Common Humanity, Perspective

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I enjoy the writings of all of these authors and they have been very inspirational for me. But I think that it is important as writers of metaphysical, New Age, occult fiction and nonfiction to not take ourselves too seriously.

  Frederick Lenz

  Writing, Thinking, Important

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• What are we here for? Does the great metaphysical nut revolve around that? Well, I'll crack it for you, right now. What are we here for? We are here to go!

  Brion Gysin

  Nuts, Doe, Cracks

  Brion Gysin (2005). “The Process”, p.174, The Overlook Press

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• Naturalism is a methodological rather than a metaphysical view. It's because I am a naturalist, actually, that I am sceptical about physicalism.

  Tim Crane

  Views, Naturalist, Naturalism

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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