#metaphysic

The universe will use any vehicle and any medium to communicate with us. Our job is to be alert and to listen. ↗

— Elaine Seiler

#inspirational #metaphysical #metaphysics #self-help #communication

For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#time #metaphysics

It was a wonderful experience. She mistrusted his very slumbers--and she seemed to think I could tell her why! Thus a poor mortal seduced by the charm of an apparition might have tried to wring from another ghost the tremendous secret of the claim the other world holds over a disembodied soul astray amongst the passions of this earth. The very ground on which I stood seemed to melt under my feet. And it was so simple too; but if the spirits evoked by our fears and our unrest have ever to vouch for each other's constancy before the forlorn magicians that we are, then I--I alone of us dwellers in the flesh--have shuddered in the hopeless chill of such a task. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#literature-quotes #lord-jim #metaphysics #experience

... It is possible to be a meta-physician without believing in a transcendent reality; for we shall see that many metaphysical utterances are due to the commission of logical errors, rather than to a conscious desire on the part of their authors to go beyond the limits of experience. ↗

— A.J. Ayer

#experience

In the pragmatist, streetwise climate of advanced postmodern capitalism, with its scepticism of big pictures and grand narratives, its hard-nosed disenchantment with the metaphysical, 'life' is one among a whole series of discredited totalities. We are invited to think small rather than big – ironically, at just the point when some of those out to destroy Western civilization are doing exactly the opposite. In the conflict between Western capitalism and radical Islam, a paucity of belief squares up to an excess of it. The West finds itself faced with a full-blooded metaphysical onslaught at just the historical point that it has, so to speak, philosophically disarmed. As far as belief goes, postmodernism prefers to travel light: it has beliefs, to be sure, but it does not have faith. ↗

— Terry Eagleton

#belief #capitalism #faith #grand-narratives #islam

But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead. ↗

— Scarlett Thomas

#metaphysics #science #science

No non-poetic account of reality can be complete. ↗

— John Myhill

#god-s-whisper-creation-s-thunder #john-d-barrow #john-myhill #metaphysics #mysticism

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. ↗

— Nicholas Tharcher

#metaphysics #philosophy #acting

Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#pain #past #spiritual-growth #metaphysics

For Emily Dickinson every philosophical idea was a potential lover. Metaphysics is the realm of eternal seduction of the spirit by ideas. ↗

— Charles Simic

#poet #metaphysics