All Quotes By Tag: Metaphysics
“whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived”
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“My religion is to live – and die – without regret.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Can all this just be an accident? Or could there be some alien intelligence behind it?”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“The map is not the territory.”
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“…reality is always plural and mutable.”
“…when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases. ”
“Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?”
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