#metaphysic

Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their day. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

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However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

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The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#logic #metaphysics #works

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#books #me #metaphysics #more #satisfies

Paranormal events are just edges of the infinite we “happen” to encounter. ↗

— Doug Dillon

#infinity #inspiration #metaphysical #paranormal #supernatural

I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content. ↗

— Arthur Boyd

#content #i #landscape #metaphysical #mythic

The sun symbolizes the Divine intelligence; the empty vastness of space symbolizes the Divine All-Possibility and also the Divine immutability; a bird symbolizes the soul; a tree symbolizes the grades of being; and water symbolizes knowledge and rain revelation. ↗

— Osman Bakar

#islam #metaphysics #philosophy #intelligence

Attitude is a state of mind that results in an action taken or an emotion displayed. Attitude, in the end, is a motivator or that which generates or reflects motives. ↗

— Reid A. Ashbaucher

#made-in-the-image-of-god #metaphysics #nature-of-god #nature-of-man #reid-ashbaucher

You are as prone to love, as the sun is to shine. ↗

— Thomas Traherne

#love