#metaphysics

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

— Marianne Williamson

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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

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic. ↗

— John Ray

#arithmetic #metaphysics

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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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

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We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time it is carrying us about...It is the human nervous system itself. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#philosophy #philosophical

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#i #metaphysics #more #myself #other

Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#chocolates #earth #like #look #metaphysics