Metaphysical Quotes - Page 7

• The disparagement of empirical evidence in favor of a metaphysical world of illusion has its origin in the conflicy between the emancipated individual of bourgeois society and his fate within that society.

  Max Horkheimer

  Fate, World, Favors

  Max Horkheimer (1972). “Critical Theory: Selected Essays”, p.138, A&C Black

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• If the world is to contain a public space, it cannot be erected for one generation and planned for the living only; it must transcend the life-span of mortal men…. There is perhaps no clearer testimony to the loss of the public realm in the modern age than the almost complete loss of authentic concern with immortality, a loss somewhat overshadowed by the simultaneous loss of the metaphysical concern with eternity.

  Hannah Arendt

  Loss, Men, Space

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.55, University of Chicago Press

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• Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of Western metaphysical dualism, many of us have accepted the notion that there is a split between the body and the mind. Believing this, individuals enter the classroom to teach as though only the mind is present, and not the body.

  Ganchos de campana

  Believe, Philosophical, Erotic

  Bell Hooks (2014). “Teaching To Transgress”, p.199, Routledge

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• The world is full of burled and gnarly knobs on which you can hang a metaphysical system. If you must.

  Edward Abbey

  Gnarly, World, Knobs

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.9, RosettaBooks

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• ... human free will implies God's prior decision not to tamper with the metaphysical base of that free will. It also implies man's ability to reject the persuasion God uses to influence that free will while leaving its metaphysical base intact! Persuasion, not compulsion, is what even He must rely upon! And persuasion, by its very definition, must be resistible!

  Don Richardson

  Men, Rely Upon, Decision

  Don Richardson (1984). “Eternity in Their Hearts”, Baker Publishing Group

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• For those for whom the sex act has come to seem mechanical and merely the meeting and manipulation of body parts, there often remains a hunger which can be called metaphysical but which is not recognized as such, and which seeks satisfaction in physical danger, or sometimes in torture, suicide, or murder.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Suicide, Sex, Body

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• Los objetos pequeños, como el Walkman primero y el iPod después, crean burbujas de espacio a nuestro alrededor que nos permiten tener un espacio metafísico mucho mayor que nuestro espacio físico.

  Paola Antonelli

  Technology, Small Objects, Ipods

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• There is something about the light, the heat (physical and perhaps metaphysical), the vibrancy of street life, and the rawness and disjointedness of much of the tropical world that has moved and disturbed me - in places where the indigenous culture is often transformed by an external northern culture (sometimes my own... I suspect that one has a few serious creative obsessions in life. I certainly cannot seem to escape this one.

  Alex Webb

  Light, Creative, Culture

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• I have these obsessions that I do not completely understand, with the deep mark, with the ruptured surface, with scars and traces, traces that human beings are leaving on the earth. It is not a comment on the environment... it is metaphysical.

  Sophie Ristelhueber

  Leaving, Earth, Scar

  Sophie Ristelhueber, Cheryl A. Brutvan, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2001). “Details of the world”, Museum of Fine Arts Boston

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• Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.

  Albert Camus

  Order, History, Creative

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• From a pure metaphysical perspective, there is no world outside ourselves. So, at the deepest level, the state of the planet is more a reflection of the consciousness of mankind than the consciousness of mankind is a reflection of world events.

  Marianne Williamson

  Reflection, Perspective, Events

  Fuente: rayhemachandra.com

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• We create our own reality because of our inner emotional - our subconscious - reality draws us into those situations from which we learn. We experience it as strange things happening to us (and) we meet the people in our lives that we need to learn from. And so we create these circumstances at a very deep metaphysical and subconscious level.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Reality, Emotional, People

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• The pictures achieve something rarely articulated about the metaphysical state of swimming: The body, immersed, feels amplified, heavier and lighter at the same time. Weightless yet stronger.

  Leanne Shapton

  Swimming, Stronger, Body

  Leanne Shapton (2012). “Swimming Studies”, p.188, Penguin

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• Una sociedad sana afirma la vida. La homosexualidad es la negación metafísica de la vida. Incapaz de reproducirse (dar vida), sólo puede reponer sus efectivos mediante la seducción.

  Don Feder

  Números, Dar, Saludable

  Don Feder (1993). "A Jewish conservative looks at pagan America", Vital Issues Pr

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• Uno de los hechos más extraños de la experiencia es que, cuando intentamos pensar en el futuro, nuestros pensamientos saltan hacia atrás. Es muy posible que la naturaleza tenga alguna ley metafísica fundamental por la que la apertura de lo que llamamos futuro también abre el pasado en igual medida.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Pasado, Pensamiento, Derecho

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). "Sinergética: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking", p.278, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• Monotheistic religions in the West have tended to conflate having a general orientation in life, having a specific theory of the world, having a sense of the positive meaningfulness of one's existence, and having a fixed set of rules for behavior, but these elements are in principle separable. ... The "metaphysical need," ... both Marx and Nietzsche held, is a historical phenomenon that arises under determinate circumstances, and could be expected to disappear under other circumstances that we could relatively easily envisage.

  Raymond Geuss

  Historical, Principles, Needs

  "Philosophy and Real Politics". Book by Raymond Geuss, 2008.

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• Hay egoístas aburridos y brillantes, sagrados y profanos, groseros y finos. Es una enfermedad que, como la gripe, afecta a todas las constituciones. En el trastorno conocido por los médicos como corea, el paciente a veces se da la vuelta y continúa girando lentamente en un punto. ¿Es el egoísmo una varioloide metafísica de esta enfermedad?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fall, Physicians, Dull

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2000). “Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.801, Modern Library

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• Si queremos dar sentido a la posibilidad del éxito de la inferencia inductiva, y si queremos explicar la posibilidad de las leyes de la naturaleza, tendremos que apelar a algo parecido a los tipos naturales. Se trata, sin duda, de un compromiso metafísico, pero es un compromiso metafísico implícito en la ciencia, tal y como yo lo veo.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Compromiso, Éxito, Ley

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• el amor es una esencia tan sutil, una maravilla metafísica tan indefinible, que su debida fuerza, aunque muy cruelmente sentida por el propio enfermo, nunca es claramente comprendida por quienes contemplan sus tormentos y se preguntan por qué lleva tan mal la fiebre común.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  Amor Es, Esencia, Fiebre

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon (2015). "El secreto de Lady Audley", p.344, Sheba Blake Publishing.

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• The relevant features of scientific practice often have mundane explanations which don't point to any deep metaphysical moral. (Thus it would simply be messy and pointless for the chemists to essay physical reductions, or for the biologists to offer number-free explanations. It's a weird kind of science-worship that views these practical considerations as clues to the nature of reality.)

  David Papineau

  Reality, Numbers, Views

  "Físico". Entrevista con Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. 8 de abril de 2013.

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• Accurate and just reasoning is the only catholic remedy, fitted for all persons and all dispositions; and is alone able to subvert that abstruse philosophy and metaphysical jargon, which, being mixed up with popular superstition, renders it in a manner impenetrable to careless reasoners, and gives it the air of science and wisdom.

  David Hume

  Philosophy, Air, Giving

  David Hume (1854). “The Philosophical Works of David Hume: Including All the Essays, and Exhibiting the More Important Alterations and Corrections in the Successive Editions Pub. by the Author”, p.9

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• It was the fashion of the times to attribute every remarkable event to the particular will of the Deity; the alterations of nature were connected, by an invisible chain, with the moral and metaphysical opinions of the human mind; and the most sagacious divines could distinguish, according to the colour of their respective prejudices, that the establishment of heresy tended to produce an earthquake, or that a deluge was the inevitable consequence of the progress of sin and error.

  Edward Gibbon

  Fashion, Earthquakes, Errors

  Edward Gibbon (2016). “THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages”, p.1209, e-artnow

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• The indispensability argument says (roughly) that if you have ample reason to accept an empirical scientific theory that makes indispensable use of mathematics, and that theory entails that numbers exist, then you have ample reason to accept that numbers exist. The argument affirms the antecedent of this conditional, and concludes that you have ample reason to believe that numbers exist. What is striking about this argument is that it seems to show that the empirical reasons that suffice for accepting a scientific theory also suffice for accepting a metaphysical claim.

  Elliott Sober

  Believe, Numbers, Use

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The indispensability argument seeks to assimilate the epistemology of metaphysical statements to the epistemology of statements that are obviously empirical. I think it fails to achieve this goal. The argument does not refute the Carnapian thesis that scientific theories and metaphysical claims differ epistemologically - observations can provide evidence for the former, but not for the latter.

  Elliott Sober

  Thinking, Goal, Doe

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• So far as photography satisfied a wish, it satisfied a wish not confined to painters, but a human wish, intensifying since the Reformation, to escape subjectivity and metaphysical isolation - a wish for power to reach this world, having for so long tried, at last hopelessly, to manifest fidelity to another... Photography overcame subjectivity in a way undreamed of by painting, one which does not so much defeat the act of painting as escape it altogether: by automatism, by removing the human agent from the act of reproduction.

  Stanley Cavell

  Photography, Long, Wish

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