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Tag: metaphysics, philosophy

So live. I’ll be the nun for you. I am now.

metaphysics, philosophy

Bertrand Russell

The accusation of metaphysics has become in philosophy something like the accusation of being a security risk in the public service. I do not for my part know what is meant by the word ‘metaphysics’. The only definition I have found that fits all cases is: ‘a philosophical opinion not held by the present author’.

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Attaining consciousness is connected with the gradual liberation from mechanicalness, for man is fully and completely under mechanical laws.

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Martin Heidegger

The term ‘Being’ does not define that realm of entities which is uppermost when these are articulated conceptually according to genus and species: the ‘universality’ of Being ‘transcends’ any universality of genus.

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Louisa May Alcott

Jo knew nothing about philosophy or metaphysics of any sort, but a curious excitement, half pleasurable, half painful, came over her, as she listened with a sense of being turned adrift into time and space, like a young balloon out on a holiday.

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To know what questions may reasonably be asked is already a great and necessary proof of sagacity and insight. For if a question is absurd in itself and calls for unnecessary answers, it not only brings disgrace to the person raising it, but may prompt an incautious listener to give absurd answers, thus presenting, as the ancients said, the laughable spectacle of one person milking a he-goat, and another holding the sieve underneath.

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R. Scott Bakker

Zsoronga, Sorweel was beginning to realize, possessed the enviable ability to yoke his conviction to his need — to believe, absolutely, whatever his heart required. For Sorweel, belief and want always seemed like ropes too short to bind together, forcing him to play the knot as a result.

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Gene Roddenberry

Can all this just be an accident? Or could there be some alien intelligence behind it?

metaphysics, philosophy

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

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Robert Anton Wilson

We look for the Secret – the Philosopher’s Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, ‘God’ or whatever…and all the time it is carrying us about…It is the human nervous system itself.

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Martin Heidegger

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

metaphysics, philosophy

Robert Anton Wilson

…reality is always plural and mutable.

metaphysics, philosophy