Metaphysics Quotes - Page 7

What is this slow blue dream of living, and this fevered death by dreaming?

Aberjhani

Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another.

Aberjhani

Theology, philosophy, metaphysics, and quantum physics are merely ways for God to have his smart people believe in him

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. The fundamental conceptions of psychology are practically very clear to us, but theoretically they are very confused, and one easily makes the obscurest assumptions in this science without realizing, until challenged, what internal difficulties they involve.

Sitting there on the heather, on our planetary grain, I shrank from the abysses that opened up on every side, and in the future. The silent darkness, the featureless unknown, were more dread than all the terrors that imagination had mustered. Peering, the mind could see nothing sure, nothing in all human experience to be grasped as certain, except uncertainty itself; nothing but obscurity gendered by a thick haze of theories. Man's science was a mere mist of numbers; his philosophy but a fog of words. His very perception of this rocky grain and all its wonders was but a shifting and a lying apparition. Even oneself, that seeming-central fact, was a mere phantom, so deceptive, that the most honest of men must question his own honesty, so insubstantial that he must even doubt his very existence.

After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.

Arthur Schopenhauer

whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived

Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.

Aberjhani

One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes’ argument “I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used rightly, is the awareness of pure consciousness, not directed at any fact or action. In fact the I is not necessary here, since it is never united directly to consciousness. One can even imagine a pure and self-aware consciousness which thinks of itself as impersonal spontaneity.

Jean-Paul Sartre

A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmareto the jeweled vision of a life started anew.

Aberjhani

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

Can all this just be an accident? Or could there be some alien intelligence behind it?

Gene Roddenberry

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.

I've often thought that there isn't any "I" at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a delusion.

Aleister Crowley

We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time it is carrying us about...It is the human nervous system itself.

Robert Anton Wilson

...reality is always plural and mutable.

Robert Anton Wilson

The map is not the territory.

Alfred Korzybski

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

Martin Heidegger

...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.

Robert Anton Wilson

Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.

Aberjhani

...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.

Robert Anton Wilson

I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain.

René Descartes

The menu is not the meal.

If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.

For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

belief is the death of intelligence.

Robert Anton Wilson

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

Terry Pratchett

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