Quotes About Metaphysical

Conceptions of God and thus metaphysical and theological judgments are an inherent and ineradicable aspect of every conception of reason and nature, not as a matter of historical accident but as a matter of epistemic and ontological necessity.

Irreducibly metaphysical judgments as to the nature of being, form, time, space, matter, cause, truth, knowledge, explanation, wholes, parts, and the like are the starting point of science, not its conclusions.

In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might be far chancier than we thought, but still possible. Such an appeal to brute luck can never be refuted... Luck is metaphysical speculation; scientific explanations invoke causes.

Bütün dünyam?z?n ve bar?nd?rd??? her ?eyin, yaln?zca ba?ka bir gerçeklik düzeyinden yans?t?lan hayaletimsi imgeler olabilece?i konusunda baz? kan?tlar vard?r.

Las mutaciones metafísicas –es decir, las transiciones radicales y globales de la visión del mundo adoptada por la mayoría– son raras en la historia de la humanidad. Como ejemplo, se puede citar la aparición del cristianismo.

I do not despise believers. I find them neither ridiculous nor pathetic, but I lose all hope when I see that they prefer the comforting fairy tales of children to the cruel hard facts of adults. Better the faith that brings peace of mind than the rationality that brings worry--even at the price of perpetual mental infantilism. What a demonstration of metaphysical sleight of hand--and what a monstrous price!

Satan's metaphysical existence can never be separated from the politics of domination, specifically colonialism. It provides vides the dominant culture with the ability to depict those whom they conquer, oppress, and repress as the Other.

Parece difícil probar con la mera luz de la razón la inmortalidad del alma. Los argumentos en favor de ella se derivan comúnmente de tópicos metafísicos, morales o físicos. Pero es en realidad el Evangelio, y sólo el Evangelio, el que ha traído a luz la vida y la inmortalidad».

4. There will always be a difference between God and human beings. The gap between us is not merely a moral and spiritual disparity which originated with the fall. It is metaphysical, stemming from creation. Even when redeemed and glorified, we will still be his human creatures. We will never become God.

There will always be a difference between God and human beings. The gap between us is not merely a moral and spiritual disparity which originated with the fall. It is metaphysical, stemming from creation. Even when redeemed and glorified, we will still be his human creatures. We will never become God.

Los sueños no habitan una solución lingüística, sino que flotan en un espacio libre, atemporal, y tan pronto se transforman en lengua o escritura, pierden su carácter voluminoso y se estiran en longitud.

Don't swallow a scythe if your stomach isn't curved

Love is a multi-dimensional, multi-reality, metaphysical, immanent, transcendental, cosmic, heavenly feeling. This is the center, this spot is like a tattoo in your subconscious mind that affects consciousness in reincarnation and the wheel of samsara in nostalgic déjà vu. Author: Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

Religion and science are all in pursuit of reaching the spiritual realm, thus transcending bodily things.

The mental plane is above the physical, just as the mental is useless before the spiritual.

The spiritual cannot be measured like physical entities.

We have also seen that it is easy to mistake literary representation (the use of vivid imagery to denote space-time reality and connote its theological significance) for metaphysical representation (whereby a 'spiritual' or 'transcendent' being is the heavenly counterpart of an earthly reality); and that in this confusion it is all too easy to imagine that language which, in a culture other than our own, would be recognized as highly figurative, is flatly literal.

Free human dialogue, wandering wherever the agility of the mind allows, lies at the heart of education. If teachers do not have the time, the incentive, or the wit to produce that; if students are too demoralized, bored, or distracted to muster the attention their teachers need of them, then THAT is the educational problem which has to be solved. . . That problem . . . is metaphysical in nature, not technical

Abetted by a form of education that in itself has been emptied of any coherent world-view, Technopoly deprives us of the social, political, historical, metaphysical, logical, or spiritual bases for knowing what is beyond belief.

They would, as Robert Martensen describes in The Brain Takes Shape, fit the visible structure of the brain into their preferred metaphysical metaphor, arranging the organ's physical parts "so as to portray likeness in their own terms."2 Writing

Self under self, a pile of selves I stand Threaded on time, and with metaphysic hand Lift the farm like a lid and see Farm within farm, and in the centre, me.

Hermann Hesse a raison de dire que les textes de Kafka ne sont ni religieux, ni métaphysiques, ni moraux , mais simplement poétiques. (p. 250)

We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.

Marriage ceremony: an incredible metaphysical sham of watching God and the law being dragged into the affairs of your family.