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• Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Philosophical, Men, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• The more serious poetry of the race has a philosophical structure of thought. It contains beliefs and conceptions in regard to the nature of man and the universe, God and the soul, fate and providence, suffering, evil and destiny. Great poetry always has, like the higher religion, a metaphysical content. It deals with the same august issues, experiences and conceptions as metaphysics or first philosophy.

  Joseph Alexander Leighton

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Fate

  Joseph Alexander Leighton (1919). “The field of philosophy: an outline of lectures on introduction to philosophy”

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• Each one prays to God according to his own light.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Faith, Light

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “All Religions are True”

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• Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Simple, Men, Clothes

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• The states of consciousness are all that psychology needs to do her work with. Metaphysics or theology may prove the Soul to exist; but for psychology the hypothesis of such a substantial principle of unity is superfluous.

  William James

  Soul, Psychology, Unity

  William James (1984). “Psychology, Briefer Course”, p.181, Harvard University Press

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• The metaphysics of substance. The strange feeling which comes over us when we sense: this is skin - this is bone - all in a single vision that is completely unearthly. The dreaminess of our existence mixed at the same time with the indescribably sweet illusion of reality.

  Max Beckmann

  Sweet, Reality, Feelings

  Stephan Lackner, Max Beckmann (1983). “Max Beckmann”, Crown Pub

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• When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Beauty, Religious, Sunset

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.175, Grove Press

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• Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Good Morning, Prayer, Good Day

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.

  Woody Allen

  Witty, Atheist, Philosophy

  Love and Death (1975 film)

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• Science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or, the state of science is an index of our self-knowledge.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Men, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.208, Harvard University Press

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• We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Philosophy, Simple, Christianity

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “Charles Spurgeon: Lectures to My Students, Volume 1”, p.83, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend their lives inside rooms. It is an indoor philosophy.

  Edward Abbey

  Philosophy, People, Earth

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.11, RosettaBooks

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• In the deep night of metaphysics, all cats look black.

  Terry Eagleton

  Cat, Night, Black

  Terry Eagleton (1981). “Walter Benjamin, Or, Towards a Revolutionary Criticism”, New Left Books

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• Mathematics is the only true metaphysics.

  Lord Kelvin

  Mathematics

  "The Life of William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs, Volume 2" by Silvanus Phillips Thompson, (p. 1124), 1910.

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• Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible.

  H. L. Mencken

  Cynical, Agnostic, Incredibles

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• Ivan and Misha is the great American Russian Novel told as Chekhov would tell it, in stories of delicacy, humanity, and insight. From Kiev to Manhattan, Brighton Beach and Bellevue, Michael Alenyikov lays out a series of compelling arguments for brotherhood between brothers, between lovers, between men from an old country. Alenyikov confronts big subjects—illness and madness, sex and love in the age of AIDS, old and new world values, a fallen wall, the metaphysics of survival, the march of generations.

  Carolyn Cooke

  Country, Beach, Brother

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• We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel. Man's fall, his need of a new birth, forgiveness through atonement, and salvation as the result of faith, these are our battle-ax and weapons of war.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Philosophy, War, Fall

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “Charles Spurgeon: Lectures to My Students, Volume 1”, p.83, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Metaphysics is a cobweb that the mind weaves around things.

  Edward Abbey

  Mind, Cobwebs

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.11, RosettaBooks

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• I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Giving, Religion, Liberty

  Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India”

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• Breathless and unharmed, we emerge from the mazes of metaphysics and psychology where man and the soul are playing hide-and-seek.

  Ameen Rihani

  Men, Psychology, Soul

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• The truth of the thoughts that are here set forth seems to me unassailable and definitive. I therefore believe myself to have found, on all essential points, the final solution of the problems. And if I am not mistaken in this belief, then the second thing in which the value of this work consists is that it shows how little is achieved when these problems are solved.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Believe, Essentials, Finals

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1961). “Tractatus logico-philosophicus: The German text Logisch-philosophische abhandlung”

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• Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Tasks, Empiricism

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• Poetry a riprap on the slick rock of metaphysics

  Gary Snyder

  Rocks, Poetry, Slick

  Gary Snyder (1978). “Myths & Texts”, p.48, New Directions Publishing

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• I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life; otherwise forget it.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Thinking, Everyday, Forget

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• There would be no history as we know it, no religion, no metaphysics or aesthetics as we have lived them, without an initial act of trust, of confiding, more fundamental, more axiomatic by far than any “social contract” or covenant with the postulate of the divine. This instauration of trust, this entrance of man into the city of man, is that between word and world.

  George Steiner

  Men, Cities, Would Be

  George Steiner (1991). “Real Presences”, p.89, University of Chicago Press

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