All Quotes By Tag: Metaphysics
“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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“Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.”
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“The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without: to follow one’s own path, not that of the crowd.”
“…an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.”
“A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmareto the jeweled vision of a life started anew.”
“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.”
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