To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
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A morningglory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
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I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
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When I was in school, I cheated on my metaphysics exam I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
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Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.
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We can make truth ours by actively modulating its inter-relations. This is the work of art; for reality is not based in the substance of things but in the principle of relationship. Truth is the infinite pursued by metaphysics; fact is the infinite p
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You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him<br/>others in return.
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Can anyone picture God telling, taking, or enjoying a good joke? The idea is laughable. The Devil, on the other hand, laughs with demonic mirth, is possessed of a sardonic wit, and his eyes hold a glint of wicked bemusement. The farthest God, in his popular image, ever strays from sobriety is a beneficent smile. Satan sniggers with fiendish scorn at God, who sits in his ivory tower emitting nary a chuckle.
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Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?
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Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.
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The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.
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A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
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A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
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He avoided the metaphysics of the ancients and shunned the unanchored speculations of academics. Not one to be guided by loose medical theorizing, he turned to data based on observations and careful experiments.
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Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.
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Do not be afraid of the word 'theory'. Yes, it can sound dauntingly abstract at times, and in the hands of some writers can appear to have precious little to do with the actual, visual world around us. Good theory however, is an awesome thing. [..] But unless we actually use it, it borders on the metaphysical and might as well not be used at all.
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If it turns out that there is a God.. The worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.
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What is it that makes a person insist passionately on the existence of metaphysical realities that can be neither demonstrated nor refuted? (176)
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I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.
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One possibility is: God is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself.
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From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other - above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.
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What is this slow blue dream of living, and this fevered death by dreaming?
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A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmareto the jeweled vision of a life started anew.
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Theology, philosophy, metaphysics, and quantum physics are merely ways for God to have his smart people believe in him
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