Quotes of: Physical-thing Keyword

It is more or less a given that nothing is less favorable to clairvoyance than the bright sun: physical light and mental light coexist on very poor terms.

Anthology of Black Humor

Travelling, whether in the mental or the physical world, is a joy, and it is good to know that, in the mental world at least, there are vast countries still very imperfectly explored

The Analysis of Mind

Nothing natural could cause this kind of fear. It goes beyond a fear of physical harm and into the realm of mental and spiritual. Like the fear of losing your sanity, of losing your soul.

Angelfall

The point is valid: the difference between survival and wipe-out in a physical crisis is nearly always a matter of conditioned reflexes.

Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga

Reality wasn't as important as people made it out to be; to Jude it was simply the physical state in which he found himself, an environment he had limited control over.

The Resistance

The embrace at the airport and stolen glances of Poe wasn't enough for him. Oliver needed to be closer to her again--emotionally and physically. His stomach clenched. Why couldn't Poe be his?

Something's Amiss

He had stylized himself--life was easier that way. He had chosen a physical mould just as writer chooses a technical form.

The Ministry of Fear

Sex is about physical attraction, yes, but it's also about trust. I don't trust you. You're completely self-absorbed and egoistic. You offer nothing I want.

Magic Graves

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.

The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers

Smartass Disciple: Master, where will you go after your soul leaves your body? Master of Stupidity: What makes you think a soul will go elsewhere physically?

Master of Stupidity

The physical world exists, but that’s only the paint and canvas; that’s only the instrument we use to make music; that’s only the stage where the play is performed.

Mikawadizi Storms

We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could match the healing powers of a well made cocktail.

Naked

The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain one can feel. It is the betrayal of a friend.

Ninth Grade Slays

That's the trouble with cookbooks. Like sex education and nuclear physics, they are founded on an illusion. They bespeak order, but they end in tears.

Nobody's Perfect: Writings from The New Yorker

Physical reality is one of the biggest horror movies of all, and you know how we love horror movies.

The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment

My God, what a sensation to be an atom in the scheme of such grandiosity. The allurement, the jazz, and the physics of it all . . .

The Legacy Letters: His Wife, His Children, His Final Gift

If the most connected we’ve ever felt with another person was in that brief moment of apology and regret after physical abuse, then we’ll seek that abuse for the rest of our lives.

The Love Mindset

The time will come that humans will be able to grasp the true essence of matter, so they will no longer need their physical bodies in order to live and to exist in this universe.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

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

I was amazed at how routine, how mechanically this most powerful intellect was created. It was no burst of inspiration, but almost physical labor instead. I asked myself: was it the same way for God?

Semmant

A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.

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