Quotes by Metaphysical The ultimate metaphysical ground is the creative advance into novelty. Alfred North Whitehead metaphysicalnoveltycreative Kant certainly was sympathetic with the metaphysical tradition of rational theology that he criticized. Allen W. Wood sympatheticmetaphysicaltradition The irrational haunts the metaphysical. Annie Dillard metaphysicalirrational 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 metaphysicalachievereality I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content. Arthur Boyd metaphysicallandscapestress Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage. Auguste Comte metaphysicalabstractthree I think part of Western metaphysical dualism is, we're always being asked to choose one over the other. Bell Hooks metaphysicalwesternthinking Ironclads and Maxim guns must be the ultimate arbiters of metaphysical truth. Bertrand Russell ironcladsmetaphysicalgun 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 metaphysicalpsychologicalsound 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 metaphysicalifsmen 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 metaphysicalanalogiesscience I am metaphysical inasmuch as I am looking for a non-eloquent painting, immobile and of atmosphere, which feeds on static situations. Domenico Gnoli metaphysicalatmospherepainting Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations. Edmund Burke metaphysicaladequatemen The world is full of burled and gnarly knobs on which you can hang a metaphysical system. If you must. Edward Abbey metaphysicalgnarlyworld To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction. Fernando Pessoa metaphysicalmattermistake When we mediate, we are raising the kundalini through focus, through concentration. There is a metaphysical astral process that's taking place. Frederick Lenz metaphysicalfocusprocess 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 metaphysicalharmonylaw 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 metaphysicaldamnlong 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 metaphysicalmeaning-of-lifemeaningful A metaphysical conclusion is either a false conclusion or a concealed experimental conclusion. Hermann von Helmholtz metaphysicaltheoryscience123»
