#metaphysic

There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that only the novel can seize. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#grasp #how #human #human existence #known

What is this slow blue dream of living, and this fevered death by dreaming? ↗

— Aberjhani

#dreams #famous-authors #famous-poets #living #metaphysics

Energy defines life not flesh and blood. WE are infinite energies experiencing infinity. Through a finite aperture. ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#life

A child’s imaginary playmate just might actually be there. ↗

— Doug Dillon

#imagination #inspiration #kids #metaphysical #paranormal

My metaphysical thinking is more in alignment with Plato rather than Aristotle's." ~R. Alan Woods [2013] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#metaphysics #philosophical-reflection #philosophy-of-religion #plato #r-alan-woods

-But you don't really mean to say that you couldn't love me if my name wasn't Earnest? -But your name is Earnest. -Yes, I know it is. But supposing it was something else? ... -Ah! That is clearly a metaphysical speculation, and like most metaphysical speculations has very little reference at all to the actual facts or real life, as we know them. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#life

What is more precious: a thousand answers derived from one question? Or, one answer…from a thousand questions? ↗

— G.F. Smith

#inspiration #literary #metaphysics #paranormal #religion

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

— Doug Dillon

#infinity #inspiration #metaphysical #paranormal #supernatural

Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

#cannot #creation #development #does #final

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