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#metaphysic

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Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. The fundamental conceptions of psychology are practically very clear to us, but theoretically they are very confused, and one easily makes the obscurest assumptions in this science without realizing, until challenged, what internal difficulties they involve.


William James


#philosophy #psychology #science #truth #science

...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.


Robert Anton Wilson


#philosophy #problems

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.


Nicholas Tharcher


#independent-thought #metaphysics #philosophy #independence

If you don't break your ropes while you're alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?


Kabir


#metaphysics #spirituality #metaphysics

[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a scalpel for excising the tumor of metaphysical belief. (130)


Stephen Batchelor


#metaphysical-beliefs #mindfulness #piety #theism #transcendence

Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon; How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.


Rumi


#metaphysics #rumi #metaphysics

The map is not the territory.


Alfred Korzybski


#metaphysics #philosophy #metaphysics

...reality is always plural and mutable.


Robert Anton Wilson


#philosophy #metaphysics

Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit.


Haruki Murakami


#metaphysical #philosophy #taste #metaphysics






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