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#metaphysics

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There are mystical, unbreakable bonds between all members of the natural world including humans and animals. Whether or not we remember or acknowledge this relatedness, it still exists.


Elizabeth Eiler


#metaphysics #nature #nature

God who gave Animals self motion beyond our understanding is without doubt able to implant other principles of motion in bodies [which] we may understand as little. Some would readily grant this may be a Spiritual one; yet a mechanical one might be showne, did not I think it better to pass it by.


Isaac Newton


#metaphysics #motion #nature #nature

Seule la totalite personnifie la verite. Neanmoins, la totalite represente simplement la nature essentielle parvenant a son etat complet au travers du processus de son propre developpement. Il doit etre dit que, fondamentalement, l'Absolu est un resultat, et c'est seulement a la fin qu'il represente ce qu'il est veritablement.


Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel


#metaphysics #nature

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


#brought #changes #day #dominant #hands

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


#eighteenth #eighteenth century #history #however #into

The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.


Wilhelm Dilthey


#also #bring #cut #healing #historical

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


Immanuel Kant


#lighthouse #many #metaphysics #ocean #philosophic

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.


Walt Whitman


#books #me #metaphysics #more #satisfies

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






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