#metaphysics

The menu is not the meal. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

#metaphysics #names #nominalism #philosophy #power-of-words

Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith. ↗

— Aberjhani

#dreams #faith #inspiration #inspirational #metaphysics

Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth. ↗

— Aberjhani

#dignity #faith #haiku #heaven #human-mortality

If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever. ↗

— Woody Allen

#metaphysics #philosophy #philosophy

How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask-half our great theological and metaphysical problems-are like that. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#metaphysics #nonsense #questioning-mind #questions #theology

Here's an example: someone says, "Master, please hand me the knife," and he hands them the knife, blade first. "Please give me the other end," he says. And the master replies, "What would you do with the other end?" This is answering an everyday matter in terms of the metaphysical. When the question is, "Master, what is the fundamental principle of Buddhism?" Then he replies, "There is enough breeze in this fan to keep me cool." That is answering the metaphysical in terms of the everyday, and that is, more or less, the principle zen works on. The mundane and the sacred are one and the same. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

#zen #metaphysics

Metaphysical speculation is independent of the physical validity of the Big Bang itself and is irrelevant to our understanding of it. ↗

— Lawrence M. Krauss

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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct. ↗

— F. H. Bradley

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When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics. ↗

— Voltaire

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He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity. ↗

— Maimonides

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