All Quotes By Tag: Metaphysics

“Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.”

“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.”

“Inevitably it follows that anyone with an independent mind must become ‘one who resists or opposes an authority or established convention’: a rebel. …And if enough people come to agree with—and follow—the REBEL, we now have a DEVIL. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have … GREATNESS.”

“The menu is not the meal.”

“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?”

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

“belief is the death of intelligence.”

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

“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.”

“In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.”