Quotes with metaphysical

  • One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.
  • I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.
  • Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

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  • Karl Marx 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
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Ayn Rand Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Auguste Comte Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
    Auguste Comte
    French philosopher (1798 - 1857)
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  • Aldous Huxley 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
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Aldous Huxley From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Arthur Boyd I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content.
    Arthur Boyd
    Australian painter (1920 - 1999)
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  • T. S. Eliot I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Benjamin Whorf Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.
    Benjamin Whorf
    American linguist and engineer (1897 - 1941)
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  • Arthur Koestler One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.
    Arthur Koestler
    Hungarian Born British Writer (1905 - 1983)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Our psychology is... a science of mere phenomena without any metaphysical implications. Treats all metaphysical claims and assertions as mental phenomena, and regards them as statements about the mind and its structure.
    Source: Psychology and Religion: West and East (1958)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.
    Source: Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Albert Camus Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Sum-totally, we find that the physical constituent of wealth-energy-cannot decrease and that the metaphysical constituent-know-how-can only increase. This is to say that everytime we use our wealth it increases.
    Source: Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Carl Schmitt The metaphysical image that a definite epoch forges of the world has the same structure as what the world immediately understands to be appropriate as a form of its political organization.
    Source: Political Theology (1922)
    Carl Schmitt
    German political philosopher and legal scholar (1888 - 1985)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller The physical is inherently entropic, giving off energy in ever more disorderly ways. The metaphysical is antientropic, methodically marshalling energy. Life is antientropic. It is spontaneously inquisitive. It sorts out and endeavors to understand.
    Source: Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead The ultimate metaphysical ground is the creative advance into novelty.
    Source: Process and Reality (1929) p. 411
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Wealth is our organized capability to cope effectively with the environment in sustaining our healthy regeneration and decreasing both the physical and metaphysical restrictions of the forward days of our lives.
    Source: Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Wayne Dyer What I am trying to do is to unmuddle the metaphysical.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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