Quotes of: Metaphysical Keyword

Historically mystics have claimed that for a true understanding of reality metaphysics is too “scientific”. Metaphysics is not reality. Metaphysics is names about reality. Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty-thousand-page men...

Robert M. Pirsig

Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.

Discourse on Metaphysics & Other Essays

Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.

The Metaphysics of Morals

Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.

The Law of Divine Compensation: Mastering the Metaphysics of Abundance

The Truth is always trying to reveal itslef to us in our physical world.

The Metaphysics of Truth -Unobserved Realities and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

To deny the necessity or value of metaphysics is to assert a metaphysical principle, just as to say a religion must be without dogmas is to assert a dogma.

Philosophy of Science

The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model.

Erwin Schrodinger

Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.

The Law of Divine Compensation: Mastering the Metaphysics of Abundance

Knowlede is power and Absolute Knowledge is Absolute Power or the Power of Truth, which is constantly shaping events and circumstances to reveal the errors in our beliefs.

The Metaphysics of Truth -Unobserved Realities and the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

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. This puts you metaphysically on the run. America is full of metaphysical outlaws.

Still Life with Woodpecker

In periods when shallow speculation is rife, one might think that metaphysics would shine forth, at least, by the brilliance of its modest reserve. But the very age that is unaware of the majesty of metaphysics, likewise overlooks its poverty. Its ma...

Jacques Maritain

The saint is the apology for the Christian religion. He is holy, however, because he allows Christ to live in him and it is in Christ that he "glories".

The Glory of the Lord: A Theological Aesthetics: The Realm of Metaphysics in the Modern Age

Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.

Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals/On a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns

I have found that the only consolation is never regretting anything that you do. Never look back, always look forward and continue moving along with a confidence that everything you’re doing and everything you’ve done is the way it’s supposed t...

The Key of Life; A Metaphysical Investigation

Perhaps one has to have placed life in the center of one’s worldview and valued it as much as I have in order to know that one may not keep it, but must yield it up.

The View of Life: Four Metaphysical Essays with Journal Aphorisms

One needs to properly possess only a couple of great thoughts--they shed light on many stretches whose illumination one would never have believed in.

The View of Life: Four Metaphysical Essays with Journal Aphorisms

By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life.

The View of Life: Four Metaphysical Essays with Journal Aphorisms

if adversity and hopeless grief have quite taken away the taste for life; if an unfortunate man, strong of soul and more indignant about his fate than despondent or dejected, wishes for death and yet preserves his life without loving it, not from inc...

Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

The accusation of metaphysics has become in philosophy something like the accusation of being a security risk in the public service. I do not for my part know what is meant by the word 'metaphysics'. The only definition I have found that fits all cas...

My Philosophical Development

I only want to give a metaphysic for my music.

Gyorgy Ligeti

High towers, and metaphysically-great men resembling them, round both of which there is commonly much wind, are not for me. My place is the fruitful bathos, the bottom-land, of experience; and the word transcendental, does not signify something passi...

Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics