Metaphysics Quotes

“Let’s do something formless, intangible, invisible—beyond the reach of human experience.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“Every being carries within them a spark of the Infinite a divine seed planted by the Supreme Being, meant to grow, evolve, experience, and return to its Source in full awareness.”
― AR ANAND

“This world is more ungraspable than the so-called hidden world, since it cannot even be called a world, but rather the One before all worlds, and it embraces all things in its perfectly unique simplicity.”
― Damascius, Damascius' Problems and Solutions Concerning First Principles

“[...] For those who think (create), reality has no mysteries. The underlying notion of reality is a creative process attributable to the Absolute, going to transform the immutability characteristic of identity into a "dynamic" concept". For Bergson, "existence is the victory over nothing", while the non-being, according to logic, is not, by its very definition. Perhaps, the priority of humankind shall be understanding thoroughly the idea of nothing, in order to properly define the borders and limits of being.”
― Vincent Bozzino, Philosophy Trips: A Naive's Guide

“[...] The statement "Botticelli's Birth of Venus is stunning", for starters, is an unfalsifiable hypothesis, because there is no experiment that might show this statement to be false. Parallax method and equations conventionally determined that the average distance between the Earth and the Moon is 384 400 Km (238 855 miles). Now, if we were to conduct hands-on investigation for its validation or an audit to demonstrate its falsification, direct testing of such a distance measure would require a scientist to physically travel the space with a giant ruler to calculate the scale between the two points. [...] The problem that scientific certainty is a myth still struggles to brush past the academic prejudice of most scientists who are green on critical analysis for its alleged pedagogical irrelevance.”
― Vincent Bozzino, Philosophy Trips: A Naive's Guide

“George MacDonald is central to a Scottish tradition tormented by theology and with its roots in two worlds. He has been described as a link between John Galt and the kailyard, and his social novels, of which he wrote a good many, are certainly that. To my mind his deeper life is not in these solid, moralistic books, but in the stories usually described as fantasies. The most formidable of these is Lilith, one of the most ambitious books in Scottish literature. It aims to project a total metaphysical vision of the universe, in which evil gives way at last to good through repentance; even the Devil will finally repent.”
― J.B. Pick, The Great Shadow House: Essays on the Metaphysical Tradition in Scottish Fiction

“Crossfire is., pre-eminently, a film noir and it is this fact which throws most doubt on the social reading offered by many Anglo-American critics. The film noir is definable partly in thematic and partly in stylistic terms, but what seems incontestible is that the meanings spoken by the genre are less social, relating to the problems (such as antisemitism) of a [particular society, and more metaphysical, having to do with angst and loneliness as essential elements of the human condition. The latter are substantially the meanings spoken by Crossfire.”
― Colin McArthur, Cinema, Culture, Scotland: Selected Essays

“The veil between the worlds, the seen and unseen, is thinnest on Halloween.”
― Megan Mary, The Dream Haunters

“What constitutes the various species? [...] Here we come up against the perennial question of human thought, which even evolutionism cannot evade: we can only ever consider single, concrete individuals—this dog, and that spruce tree, this grasshopper, and that man. “Humanity” is not something we can see, nor is “catness” or “spruce-ness”. Behind these considerations lies the perennial dispute about “universals”. Is there really such a thing as “humanity”, or are these just “nomina nuda”, as Umberto Eco says in the final sentence of his famous novel The Name of the Rose? Nominalism, which was widespread in the fifteenth century, says that we cannot actually know anything properly. Is there such a thing as “man” as a kind of creature, a species? I have the impression that many scientists do not really like this question because it is too philosophical. It leads us unavoidably into metaphysics. Is there such a thing as a “species”? Are there such things as “beings” at all?”
― Christoph Schönborn, Chance or Purpose? Creation, Evolution, and a Rational Faith

“Everything related to the order of metaphysics has, in itself, the power of opening up boundless horizons to anyone who has a true conception of it. [...] the things in question are the most tremendous that exist, and compared with them everything else is mere child's play.”
― René Guénon, East and West

“Godmind, Sonnet 2101

Come, look into my eyes,
you'll smell the soil from Tabriz,
chiming with the whirlwind of Konya.
Come, peer into my endless abyss,
fused with the fragrance of Bethlehem,
you'll feel the breeze from Bodh Gaya.

Don't be intimidated, just let it go,
let the chaff of creed become compost.
The vastness I live is the vastness in you,
yet it seems alien, for you're grazing like cod.

Nothing's out there except our image,
whatever is there, is right here.
Origin of universe is too stoic an undertaking,
you just act human, right now and here.

If boson is god particle of the universe,
human is the god particle of society.
Life is divine, when instrument of love,
human is the heart particle of humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology

“When science finally advances to its ultimate peak, everybody will be mystics.”
― Dolores Cannon, The Convoluted Universe, Book 1

“We can love only what is absent and, in order to love what is present, we must imagine its absence. Love can persist only if it hollows out an additional dimension in the present, the possibility of its absence. Its joy is to see their presence triumph incessantly there over the absence.”
― Dom Jean-Charles Nault

“Philosophy has the curious characteristic that, although itself entrapped, locked inside the glasshouse of our constitution and our language, it is nevertheless able constantly to think beyond itself and its limits, to think itself through the walls of its glasshouse. And this thinking beyond itself, into openess – that, precisely, is metaphysics.”
― Theodor W. Adorno, Metaphysics: Concept and Problems

“We are taught to fear the unknown, but what if the unknown is whatever we want it to be? What if the unknown was just undiscovered parts of ourselves that have been waiting for us to come home?”
― Natalia Beshqoy, Awakening: Spiritual Poems for Humanity

“We have kept ourselves in the dark, hidden from the light, but it is only a matter of time that a new season begins again.”
― Natalia Beshqoy, Awakening: Spiritual Poems for Humanity

“The more I contemplate existence, the less I am attached to the physicalness of my being and more in tune with the essence and energy of my being-ness.”
― Natalia Beshqoy, Awakening: Spiritual Poems for Humanity

“The more I contemplate existence, the less I am attached to the physicalness of my being and more in tune with the essence and energy of my beingness”
― Natalia Beshqoy, Awakening: Spiritual Poems for Humanity

“The physical world is a mirror of the soul.”
― Natalia Beshqoy, Awakening: Spiritual Poems for Humanity

“Time and space keep me here, but I am everywhere all at once. Take me away to the infinite spaces. Let me see more light, the layers and dimensions of me. Infinity is the frozen frame exploding into infinite frames...”
― Natalia Beshqoy, Awakening: Spiritual Poems for Humanity

“Manifestations come from our internal state of being -- we are the seed and everything blooms in, through, and out of us.”
― Natalia Beshqoy, Awakening: Spiritual Poems for Humanity

“[M]ost Husserl scholars ... seem to be blind to the future and have eyes only for the present. For they are so interested in the present in order to make phenomenology ... compatible with the most fashionable trends of contemporary philosophy ... that they do not realize that - in so doing - nothing will be left of phenomenology in the future.

Indeed, Husserl’s phenomenology has already been stripped of its highest aspirations
(viz., that of developing a full-fledged theory of reason able to provide a new foundation for metaphysics and, linked to the latter, reforming humanity); it has already been stripped or freed of its most important methodological tools (e.g., the so-called transcendental reduction); more recently, even Heidegger’s phenomenology
has been purged of its language (e.g., by translating Dasein as “mind”). [...]

The desire to make phenomenology, specially Husserl’s thought, attractive to the present will merely relegate it to the past, for phenomenology seems to be suitable for the present only on condition that it is no longer phenomenology itself.”
― Daniele De Santis, Husserl and the A Priori: Phenomenology and Rationality

“In this valley the heaven of attraction is lifted up, the world-illuminating sun of longing dawns forth and the fire of love becomes ablaze.

And when the fire of love is become ablaze, the harvest of reason will be wholly consumed.

At this time the traveller is unconscious, both of himself and of aught else save himself.

He knows neither knowledge nor ignorance, neither doubt nor certainty; neither does he recognise the morn of guidance nor the eve of error.

He avoids both infidelity and faith.

Without pain this journey will never be accomplished.

In this stage the lover has no thought but of the Beloved One, and seeks no shelter but the Desired One. At every moment he freely gives a hundred lives in the path of the Beloved, and at every step he throws a thousand at the feet of the Friend.

A lover fears nothing, and no loss can do him harm.

Love accepts not any existence, nor wishes any life; he finds life in death, and glory in shame.”
― Aniss Benarrioua, The Flower of Anis: The Fifth Grimoire

“The “distance” between being and nonbeing is qualitatively infinite, and so it is immaterial here how small, simple, vacuous, or impalpably indeterminate a physical state or event is: it is still infinitely removed from nonbeing and infinitely incapable of having created itself out of nothing. That the physical reality we know is the result of other physical realities has more or less been the assumption of most human cultures throughout history; but that, unfortunately, casts no light whatsoever on why it is that physical reality, being intrinsically contingent, should exist at all.”
― David Bentley Hart, The Experience of God : Being, Consciousness, Bliss

“All of reality could be an illusion into achieving alien interests... ...Whatever the aliens want from us to do, we perceive it as a good feeling.”
― Maria Karvouni, Reality Is Just A Possible Fantasy

“You cannot argue with gravity, negotiate with fire, or rewrite the laws of nature. Reality stands, unmoved by human will.”
― Pierre Lagrenat

“It is like they are inside your dreams and they surface your subconscious to make you express an evil side in reality while you were not expressing it all this time.”
― Maria Karvouni, Reality Is Just A Possible Fantasy

“The completion of metaphysics is an impossibility. There is no such thing as an kataphatic theology. There is always more. This lack of completion brings us to erotic solitude.”
― William Desmond, Godsends: From Default Atheism to the Surprise of Revelation

“God cannot change over time as he would then be dependent upon the relation between some unrealized potentiality within himself and some fuller actuality somehow ‘beyond’ himself into which he may yet evolve; he would then be a conditional being. He also must possess no limitations of any kind, intrinsic or extrinsic, that would exclude anything real from him. Nothing that exists can be incompatible with the power of being that he is, as all comes from him, and this means that he must transcend all those limits that alienate and exclude finite realities from one another, but in such a manner that he can embrace those finite realities in a more eminent way without contradiction. Again, a classic image of this simplicity is that of white light, which contains the full chromatic range of the optical spectrum, but in a ‘more eminent’ simplicity.”
― David Bentley Hart, The Experience of God : Being, Consciousness, Bliss

“Art is the remembrance of the universal presence of God.”
― Ernest Hello, Life, Science And Art: Being Leaves From Ernest Hello