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The map is not the territory. ↗

— Alfred Korzybski

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We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself. ↗

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

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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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To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics. ↗

— Martin Heidegger

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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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Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics. ↗

— Maimonides

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...reality is always plural and mutable. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

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Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

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Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

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This is the one and only firmament; therefore it is the absolute world. There is no other world. The circle is complete. I am living in Eternity. The ways of this world are the ways of Heaven. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

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