Metaphysical Quotes - Page 6

• Si "dios" es un término metafísico, entonces no puede ser ni siquiera probable que exista un dios. Decir que "Dios existe" es hacer una afirmación metafísica que no puede ser ni verdadera ni falsa. Y según el mismo criterio, ninguna frase que pretenda describir la naturaleza de un dios trascendente puede tener significado literal.

  A.J. Ayer

  Religion, Atheism, True Or False

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• Football is not a game but a religion, a metaphysical island of fundamental truth in a highly verbalized, disguised society, a throwback of 30,000 generations of anthropological time.

  Arnold J. Mandell

  Football, Islands, Games

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• Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Photography, Art

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Birth of Tragedy”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• I have at this moment so many fundamental thoughts, so many truly metaphysical things to say, that I suddenly get tired and decide not to write any more, not to think any more, but to allow the fever of speaking to make me sleepy, and with my eyes closed, like a cat, I play with everything I could have said.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Writing, Tired, Cat

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• Nature does not teach. A true philosophy may sometimes validate an experience of nature; an experience of nature cannot validate a philosophy. Nature will not verify any theological or metaphysical proposition (or not in the manner we are now considering); she will help to show what it means.

  C. S. Lewis

  Filosofía, Media, Doe

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one... It’s this in-between that I’m calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one - which is really the realm of the artist.

  Federico Fellini

  Country, Artist, Reality

  "Every Time We Say Goodbye". Sight & Sound (London), June 1991.

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• If you start asking how do we make life meaningful and life never ends, then you get into sort of these terrible sort of metaphysical quandaries and it gets really, really bleak looking.

  Hanya Yanagihara

  Meaningful, Meaning Of Life, Terrible

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You can be horrified by the state of the prisons, the misery in certain neighborhoods of its cities, or their level of poverty. Anti-Americanism, by which I mean a hatred for America as such-its transformation into a metaphysical category, which incarnates all the evil in the world-is one of fascism's favorite themes. Look at writer and political theorist Charles Maurras in France. The philosopher Martin Heidegger in Germany. The radical Islamists of today!

  Bernard-Henri Levy

  Mean, Evil, Political

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Duties concern things that are voluntary. I do think that if you have a moral duty to bring me back the book you borrowed, that implies, roughly, that your doing so depends on your wanting to do so: if you want to bring me the book, you will. This is not the case if you are stuck at some airport due to a snowstorm, far away from me. This, however, is not the same as "ought" implying a metaphysical "can".

  Nomy Arpaly

  Book, Thinking, Moral

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Correlationism rejects metaphysical realism understood as the claim that the way the world is does not depend on how we take things to be. It also rejects the Cartesian corollary, i.e., the claim that the way the mind is does not depend on the way the world is.

  Ray Brassier

  Mind, World

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I agree that science is the best way of understanding the natural world, and therefore that we have reason to believe what the best science tells us about the objects in that world and the relations between them. But this does not mean that the natural world is the only thing we can have true beliefs about. The status of material objects as things that are "real" is a matter of their having physical properties, such as weight, solidity, and spatio-temporal location. In order to be real, such things need not have, in addition to these properties, some further kind of metaphysical existence.

  T. M. Scanlon

  Real, Creer, Significar

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• El hogar es esencialmente un conjunto de valores que llevas contigo y, como una tortuga o un caracol o lo que sea, el hogar tiene que ser algo que forme parte de ti y que pueda ser igualmente parte de ti estés donde estés. Creo que no tener un hogar es un buen aliciente para crear un hogar metafísico y poder verlo de formas más invisibles.

  Pico Iyer

  Inicio, Pensar, Crear

  Fuente: scottlondon.com

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• The idea of universal human rights may not seem as weird to some people as the idea of a personal God, but it is still a metaphysical idea that liberalism, at least as we know it, couldn't really survive without.

  Ross Douthat

  Ideas, Rights, People

  Fuente: www.christianpost.com

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• I think that secular liberals need to recognize that they are still, often, hanging their worldview on what are metaphysical ideas.

  Ross Douthat

  Thinking, Ideas, Needs

  Fuente: www.christianpost.com

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• The Overman will himself be a nihilist in the (good) sense of rejecting any metaphysical or religious grounding for truth and value, but instead of curling up in despair, or simply going along with the crowd like the 'passive' nihilist, he will recognize himself as the sole source of truths and values to live by.

  David E. Cooper

  Religious, Despair, Crowds

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It [9/11] transcended the political and moved into the metaphysical. There was a kind of cosmic, demonic quality of mind at work here, which refused to have any interest in dialogue and political organization and persuasion. This was bloody-minded destruction for no other reason than to do it.

  Edward Said

  Organization, Political, Mind

  Fuente: www.progressive.org

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• The Rudderless World is not shaped by vague metaphysical Forces. It is not God who kills the Children. Not Fate that butchers them or Destiny that feeds them to the Dogs. ... It´s us. Only us.

  Alan Moore

  Dog, Children, Fate

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• [Regarding] the soul, I'm a little wary of any discourse on that topic that pretends to have an answer, so I tend to keep my musings to myself. There is interesting, legitimate metaphysical work on the topic going at least as far back as Leibniz and continuing today, following the theme that consciousness, or at least computation, might be at least as fundamental as phenomena such as space, time, energy, and matter, which are the usual subject matter of physics. I follow that sort of thing with interest but with very modest expectations that answers will be arrived at during my lifetime.

  Neal Stephenson

  Space, Expectations, Interesting

  Fuente: www.omnivoracious.com

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• By then running had entered the realm of the metaphysical. First there came the action of running, and accompanying it there was this entity known as me. I run; therefore I am.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Firsts, Action

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• I believe that I can create whatever I want to create. If I can put my head on it right, study it, learn the patterns, and - it's hard to put into words, it's real metaphysical, esoteric nonsense, but I feel very strongly that we are who we choose to be.

  Will Smith

  Real, Believe, Patterns

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or for the exercise of philosophical acuteness or judicial research. They are instruments of a practical nature, founded on the common business of human life, adapted to common wants, designed for common use, and fitted for common understandings.

  Historia de Joseph

  Philosophical, Exercise, Expression

  Joseph Story (1851). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution”, p.322

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• Muse, time has taught me that all metaphysical systems, even historical facts given as truths, are hardly that, so I amuse myself with more agreeable lies; I no longer read anything but novels.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Lying, Historical, Taught

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• One of my books is a hallucinogen, an aphrodisiac, a mood elevator, an intellectual garage door opener, and a metaphysical trash compactor. They'll do everything except rotate your tires.

  Tom Robbins

  Book, Doors, Intellectual

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• Myth is necessary because reality is so much larger than rationality...man is fundamentally mythic...His real health depends upon his knowing and living his metaphysical totality.

  Clyde S. Kilby

  Real, Men, Knowing

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• I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a simple view of the subject as it stands stripped of every relation, in all the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical abstraction. Circumstances (which with some gentlemen pass for nothing) give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

  Edmund Burke

  Simple, Reality, Views

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