#metaphysic

Sitting there on the heather, on our planetary grain, I shrank from the abysses that opened up on every side, and in the future. The silent darkness, the featureless unknown, were more dread than all the terrors that imagination had mustered. Peering, the mind could see nothing sure, nothing in all human experience to be grasped as certain, except uncertainty itself; nothing but obscurity gendered by a thick haze of theories. Man's science was a mere mist of numbers; his philosophy but a fog of words. His very perception of this rocky grain and all its wonders was but a shifting and a lying apparition. Even oneself, that seeming-central fact, was a mere phantom, so deceptive, that the most honest of men must question his own honesty, so insubstantial that he must even doubt his very existence. ↗

— Olaf Stapledon

#philosophy #self-identity #experience

I knew in that moment, we were never meant to surrender our childlike innocence, to trade a world in which we fit like a glove for one that hung on us like ill-fitting hand-me-downs. However, all about us insisted on our membership. And instead of a handshake or a mystical password as entrance into this spurious society, we agreed instead to share a lie, the one that says we’re safe, secure, and fulfilled living this way. ↗

— Christina Carson

#friendship #health-and-healing #metaphysics #quantum-reality #friendship

Don't live by my words, don't die by them, chew them slowly digest them, and smile if they give nourishment to your soul. ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#life #metaphysics #peace #revelation #tranquility

Having vision is much more than just being visual. ↗

— Heru Ofori-Atta

#jury #legal-thriller #metaphysical #thriller

I am not worthy of my suffering. A great sentence. It suggests not only that suffering is the basis of the self, its sole indubitable ontological proof, but also that it is the one feeling most worthy of respect; the value of all values. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#metaphysical #romantic-fiction #respect

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic. ↗

— John Ray

#arithmetic #metaphysics

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#logic #metaphysics #works

Spirit does not exist in just one location; rather it is all encompassing, living within and amongst us in each moment, thought and action. I believe that Spirit is raised to it's highest level, when individuals gather with wisdom, compassion and a discerning desire to provide service to humanity". We are all One, One Energy, from One Light. Let us band together as Humans, with love for all of humanity, living each day in harmony as we explore our spirit. ↗

— Kala Ambrose

#metaphysical #spiritual #inspirational

So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#metaphysics #physics #process #understand #very

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