Metaphysics Quotes

[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.

~ Samuel Butler

The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color. In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward.

~ Aberjhani

What is more precious: a thousand answers derived from one question? Or, one answer…from a thousand questions?

~ G.f. Smith

Everything turns in circles and spirals with the cosmic heart until infinity. Everything has a vibration that spirals inward or outward — and everything turns together in the same direction at the same time. This vibration keeps going: it becomes born and expands or closes and destructs — only to repeat the cycle again in opposite current. Like a lotus, it opens or closes, dies and is born again. Such is also the story of the sun and moon, of me and you. Nothing truly dies. All energy simply transforms.

~ Suzy Kassem

This book first arose out of a passage in Borges, out of the laughter that shattered, as I read the passage, all the familiar landmarks of my thought—our thought that bears the stamp of our age and our geography—breaking up all the ordered surfaces and all the planes with which we are accustomed to tame the wild profusion of existing things, and continuing long afterwards to disturb and threaten with collapse our age-old distinction between the Same and the Other. This passage quotes a ‘certain Chinese encyclopaedia’ in which it is written that ‘animals are divided into: (a) belonging to the Emperor, (b) embalmed, (c) tame, (d) suckling pigs, (e) sirens, (f) fabulous, (g) stray dogs, (h) included in the present classification, (i) frenzied, (j) innumerable, (k) drawn with a very fine camelhair brush, (l) et cetera, (m) having just broken the water pitcher, (n) that from a long way off look like flies’. In the wonderment of this taxonomy, the thing we apprehend in one great leap, the thing that, by means of the fable, is demonstrated as the exotic charm of another system of thought, is the limitation of our own, the stark impossibility of thinking that.

~ Michel Foucault

Self under self, a pile of selves I standThreaded on time, and with metaphysic handLift the farm like a lid and seeFarm within farm, and in the centre, me.

~ Norman Maccaig

For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.

~ Tom Stoppard

Oh Time, you arise with parting! [О Время, ты от разлуки!]- Vladislav Khalyavkin, The Operator

~ Vladislav Khalyavkin

One possibility is: God is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself.

~ Lee Smolin

Metaphysical speculation is independent of the physical validity of the Big Bang itself and is irrelevant to our understanding of it.

~ Lawrence M. Krauss

But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.

~ Scarlett Thomas

A great physicist is always a metaphysicist as well he has a higher concept of his knowledge and his task.

~ Ernst Jünger

We know that energy can not be created nor destroyed but can be changed in it's form. If it can not be formed then it can not exist. We may not exist.

~ Mohammed Ali

Indeed neither life nor science bothers about essences-they leave essences to metaphysics, which is neither life nor science.

~ Alfred Korzybski

. . . the abandonment of metaphysics involves more than the redefinition of the nature of rational inquiry in accordance with the tenets of modern scientific methodology this redefinition itself makes matters of value and validity mere matters of opinion.

~ Alan White

That there is indeed a limit upon science is made very likely by the existence of questions that science cannot answer and that no conceivable advance of science would empower it to answer… It is not to science, therefore but to metaphysics, imaginative literature or religion that we must turn for answers to questions having to do with first and last things.

~ Peter Medawar

I don’t do metaphysics. Neither do I have the luxury to talk about my beliefs.

~ Abhijit Naskar

One can never fall in love, you must rise to it's level of consciousness. Love is not a feeling, it's a state of MIND!

~ T.c. Carrier

Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal.-- from The Sexual Side of Spirituality

~ Aberjhani

The degree to which your Consciousness expands, is the degree to which you understand yourself and the universe.

~ Gina Charles

Soon we shall discover that the temple of all humanity is nothing less that the Temple of the Living God! ~ Chapter One, The Awakening ~ Discovering the Bliss of your True Divine Reality

~ Linda De Coff

Sentinels of treesbreathe life into bodies of earthly fleshAs their mighty arms reach to the starswe join in their quest for Helios’s mighty powerLike sentinels, we seek our placein the forest of nature’s gentle breath

~ Ramon Ravenswood

You whom my body longs for,where are you?In the stars, in the river, over the rainbow?Perhaps you hide in the shadows of the mountains,whistling in the wind through mighty peaksJust maybe you are in every corner of my beingawaiting invocationÔ Manna Breathfill my life with your infinite power

~ Ramon Ravenswood

Every second, every minute, every hourour bodies breathe in the manna of Heaven.Our bodies resonate with the love and powerof creative cosmic rhythmsdancing through every cell in our beautiful beingness.Heaven is the heart of our atomic structure.Only with realisation of God manna within can the external cosmic energy fuse and ignite eternal bliss.Manna from Heaven.

~ Ramon Ravenswood

Easter blessingsAll life’s sacrifices like autumn leavesawaken our sensesand power to love and be wholeOur Mother Earth, Our Father Skyembraces our happiness and laughterPraise be to freedom and life’s seasonsPraise be to Christ’s freedom song

~ Ramon Ravenswood

The universe is a gigantic amusement park in which we can have a ride or two.

~ Stefan Emunds

Spirituality is the realization of the totality of our being.

~ Stefan Emunds

Spirituality wants to know and experience higher states of mind and being. It wants to wrestle with angels and look the Creator in the eye.

~ Stefan Emunds

Spirituality is 80% attitude and 20% knowledge.

~ Stefan Emunds

What are the units of ontology really that I should be a part of a whole, but not be, in all my awareness, chiefly the whole unto itself?

~ Ashim Shanker

The world outside is a strange, but relentless mirror.

~ Nebo D. Lukovich

I hear them say Why do I miss someone I haven't even met?How about not missing someone because it feels like they've been with you all along?

~ Nicola An

The Talmud states, Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly now, love mercy now, walk humbly now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.

~ Bridges Mccall

Change happens very slow and very sudden.

~ Dorothy Bryant

When you have the power to love, that strength, that courage is infinite; that love is infinite. There is nothing finite about it's presence, for love. never. dies.

~ Solange Nicole

Life is not a fairground, but a school. -- Franz Bardon

~ Franz Bardon

Any person or thing of significance to you unconsciously plays a role in mirroring your own internal universe, just as you do theirs.

~ Nebo D. Lukovich

To the extent to which your consciousness is limited or expanded, is the extent to which you experience being divided or divine.

~ Erin Fal Haskell

A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the emulsion. Once you get inside a dot, you gain access to hidden information, you slide into the smallest event. This is what technology does. It peels back the shadows and redeems the dazed and rumbling past. It makes reality come true.

~ Don Delillo

Everybody make words,' he continued. 'Everybody write things down. Children in school do lessons in my books. Teachers put grades in my books. Love letters sent in envelopes I sell. Ledgers for accountants, pads for shopping lists, agendas for planning week. Everything in here important to life, and that make me happy, give honour to my life.'The man delivered his little speech with such solemnity, such a grave sense of purpose and commitment, I confess that I felt moved. What kind of stationery store owner was this, I wondered, who expounded to his customers on the metaphysics of paper, who saw himself as serving an essential role in the myriad affairs of humanity? There was something comical about it, I suppose, but as I listened to him talk, it didn't occur to me to laugh.

~ Paul Auster