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The ultimate metaphysical ground is the creative advance into nov... by Alfred North Whitehead

The ultimate metaphysical ground is the creative advance into novelty.

Alfred North Whitehead
metaphysical novelty creative

Kant certainly was sympathetic with the metaphysical tradition of rational theology that he criticized.

Allen W. Wood
sympathetic metaphysical tradition
The irrational haunts the metaphysical. by Annie Dillard

The irrational haunts the metaphysical.

Annie Dillard
metaphysical irrational

To achieve contact with reality is not to transport oneself elsewhere, it is not transcendence but thorough immersion in one's surroundings. A reality which is neither purely physical nor metaphysical, but both at once.

Antoni Tapies
metaphysical achieve reality
I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metap... by Arthur Boyd

I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content.

Arthur Boyd
metaphysical landscape stress

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Auguste Comte
metaphysical abstract three

I think part of Western metaphysical dualism is, we're always being asked to choose one over the other.

Bell Hooks
metaphysical western thinking
Ironclads and Maxim guns must be the ultimate arbiters of metaphy... by Bertrand Russell

Ironclads and Maxim guns must be the ultimate arbiters of metaphysical truth.

Bertrand Russell
ironclads metaphysical gun

Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. Whenever the Westerner hears the word “psychological,” it always sounds to him like “only psychological.

Carl Jung
metaphysical psychological sound

Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.

Carlos Castaneda
metaphysical ifs men

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
metaphysical analogies science

I am metaphysical inasmuch as I am looking for a non-eloquent painting, immobile and of atmosphere, which feeds on static situations.

Domenico Gnoli
metaphysical atmosphere painting
Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not... by Edmund Burke

Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations.

Edmund Burke
metaphysical adequate men

The world is full of burled and gnarly knobs on which you can hang a metaphysical system. If you must.

Edward Abbey
metaphysical gnarly world
To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a derelic... by Fernando Pessoa

To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction.

Fernando Pessoa
metaphysical matter mistake

When we mediate, we are raising the kundalini through focus, through concentration. There is a metaphysical astral process that's taking place.

Frederick Lenz
metaphysical focus process

It is in this mutual dependence of the functions and the aid which they reciprocally lend one another that are founded the laws which determine the relations of their organs and which possess a necessity equal to that of metaphysical or mathematical laws, since it is evident that the seemly harmony between organs which interact is a necessary condition of existence of the creature to which they belong and that if one of these functions were modified in a manner incompatible with the modifications of the others the creature could no longer continue to exist.

Georges Cuvier
metaphysical harmony law

The long words are not the hard words, it is the short words that are hard. There is much more metaphysical subtlety in the word "damn" than in the word "degeneration."

Gilbert K. Chesterton
metaphysical damn long

If you start asking how do we make life meaningful and life never ends, then you get into sort of these terrible sort of metaphysical quandaries and it gets really, really bleak looking.

Hanya Yanagihara
metaphysical meaning-of-life meaningful
A metaphysical conclusion is either a false conclusion or a conce... by Hermann von Helmholtz

A metaphysical conclusion is either a false conclusion or a concealed experimental conclusion.

Hermann von Helmholtz
metaphysical theory science
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