29 Metaphysical Quotes for You to Enjoy

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language. Ludwig Wittgenstein

Reality Language Thought Harmony Everything Between Like Metaphysical Grammar Found

Metaphysical thinking will always no doubt be a strong element in her mentality, and it is to be hoped that she will never lose her great, her sovereign powers in that direction. Sri Aurobindo

Great Strong Will Lose Doubt Thinking Hoped No Doubt Direction Mentality Never Powers She Always Metaphysical Sovereign Element Her

Prayer's important, not just as some kind of a metaphysical exercise, but I think it's a way to refresh one's own mind and motive. If you're praying, you're really looking beyond your own personal thoughts and the pressures that are around you. Mike Huckabee

Prayer Thoughts You Mind Important Looking Own Think Way Pressures Kind Some Beyond Exercise Around Metaphysical Praying Motive Personal Refresh Just Really Your

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image. Aldous Huxley

Work Art Man Own System Re-Created Well Scientific Scientific Theory Metaphysical His Theory Europe Resembles Neat Image

World War II was a trauma that paralysed writers. It was something metaphysical, diabolical. A. B. Yehoshua

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In a deep metaphysical sense, all that is conditioned is illusory. All phenomena are literally 'appearances,' the outer masks in which the One Reality shows itself forth in our changing universe. The more 'material' and solid the appearance, the further is it from reality, and therefore the more illusory it is. Annie Besant

Reality Sense Universe Changing Our Further Solid Outer More Masks Material Metaphysical Conditioned Itself Literally Which Reality Shows Forth Deep Therefore Appearance Appearances Shows Illusory Phenomena

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

Stress Mythic Content Metaphysical Australian Landscape Uniqueness

You need to put easy, nice, tranquil thoughts in your head before you go to bed. You know what I do? I read metaphysical books. The good stuff stays in your brain once you go under. Cristina Saralegui

For the fiction students I teach, one of the most common mistakes is to start in the wrong place. Often the actual story doesn't begin until about a third of the way into their narratives. They start off instead with excessive scene-setting, metaphysical speculation, introducing nonessential dramatis personae, throat-clearing, etc. Darin Strauss

Mistakes Way Introducing About Excessive Students Wrong Instead Wrong Place Most Until Narratives Metaphysical Off Begin Often Common Fiction Story Place Etc Teach Actual Start Speculation Third

Dickinson is my hero because she was a joker, because she would never explain, because as a poet she confronted pain, dread and death, and because she was capable of speaking of those matters with both levity and seriousness. She's my hero because she was a metaphysical adventurer. Helen Oyeyemi

I always lived by railroads, and I would find places to just look at the horizon, and I always expected there was something somewhere else. And sometimes I think that's more a metaphysical somewhere else rather than just to get out of the town. Jason Molina

Sometimes Somewhere Think Else Out Would Find Horizon Something Rather More Somewhere Else Town Look Always Metaphysical Than Expected Get Just Places Lived Railroads

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me. John Fowles

Nature Me Way Static Physical Some Seem Seemed Mysterious Through Never Terms Metaphysical Move Woods Them Things

For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey. Joseph Brodsky

Journey Poet On The Contrary Point Doctrine Metaphysical Arrival Contrary Departure

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties. Karl Marx

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It is thus necessary to examine all things according to their essence, to infer from every species such true and well established propositions as may assist us in the solution of metaphysical problems. Maimonides

Problems Every Solution All Things Examine True Thus Well Metaphysical According Infer Essence May Established Us Species Things Necessary Assist

Dada was an extreme protest against the physical side of painting. It was a metaphysical attitude. Marcel Duchamp

Attitude Painting Side Extreme Physical Protest Metaphysical Against

For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century. Nathaniel Philbrick

Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical. Robert Smithson

Art Development Dialectical Metaphysical Should

Evolution is true, it happens, it is the way the world is, and we too are one of its products. This does not mean that evolution does not have metaphysical implications; I remain convinced that this is the case. Simon Conway Morris

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One of my books is a hallucinogen, an aphrodisiac, a mood elevator, an intellectual garage door opener, and a metaphysical trash compactor. They'll do everything except rotate your tires. Tom Robbins

Everything Books Mood Except Opener Metaphysical Intellectual Door Tires Aphrodisiac Your Rotate Trash Garage Elevator

Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone... truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else. Wayne Coyne

Music Alone You Sadness Amazing Else Telling Some Someone Only Share Comfort Isolated Metaphysical Truly Cure Where While

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