Quotes about Metaphysics

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In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded. — Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun. — Alan W. Watts
belief is the death of intelligence. — Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger: Die letzten Geheimnisse der Illuminaten oder An den Grenzen des erweiterten Bewusstseins
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
For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is uncha — George Orwell, 1984
The menu is not the meal. — Alan W. Watts
I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying — René Descartes
Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you. — Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable. — Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger: Die letzten Geheimnisse der Illuminaten oder An den Grenzen des erweiterten Bewusstseins
...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases. — Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger Volume I: Final Secret of the Illuminati
Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing? — Martin Heidegger, Introduction to Metaphysics
...reality is always plural and mutable. — Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger Volume I: Final Secret of the Illuminati
The map is not the territory. — Alfred Korzybski
We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of ap — Hazrat Inayat Khan
We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and — Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger Volume I: Final Secret of the Illuminati
I've often thought that there isn't any "I" at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that w — Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend
A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy. — Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more. — Nikola Telsa, The Problem of Increasing Human Energy
Can all this just be an accident? Or could there be some alien intelligence behind it? — Gene Roddenberry
A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds — H.L. Mencken