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Famous Quotes about metaphysics“ Rise above little things. Be a big thinker. You are what you think. So just think big, believe big, act big, dream big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big, live big. Carry that list and you'll start feeling big. Be a believer and you'll be an achiever. ” “ Any creative effort is channeled, whether it be music or art or theoretical science. We have the capacity to tune into energies and convert them into reality for ourselves. ” “ I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me. ” “ What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds. ” “ It must certainly be allowed, that nature has kept us at a great distance from all her secrets, and has afforded us only the knowledge of a few superficial qualities of objects; while she conceals from us those powers and principles on which the influence of those objects entirely depends. ” “ The unrest which keeps the never-stopping clock metaphysics going is the thought that the non-existence of this world is just as possible as its existence. ” “ I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature. ... It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions. This is the way to gain ground and to progress with certainty. ” “ There are also two kinds of truths: truth of reasoning and truths of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; those of fact are contingent and their opposite is possible. When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached. ” “ Every possible idea therefore may be said to be used existentially, for every possible idea qualifies and is true of a real world. And the number of real worlds, in a word, is indefinite. Every idea therefore in a sense is true, and is true of reality. The question with every idea is how far and in what sense is it true. The question is always whether, qualifying reality in one sense, the idea qualifies reality in another sense also. For, true in one world, an idea may be false in another world... ” “ Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality. ” “ The thing-in-itself, the will-to-live, exists whole and undivided in every being, even in the tiniest; it is present as completely as in all that ever were, are, and will be, taken together. ” “ Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another. I do not conceive of any reality at all as without genuine unity. ” “ I cannot find, I cannot imagine any such reasoning. But I keep my mind still open to instruction, if any one will vouchsafe to bestow it upon me. ” “ All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind. ” “ Every thought creates vibrations. Vibrations are like sound waves or radiations. No obstacles, no hurdles can stop them. Kind thoughts make good vibrations. ” “ When we look about us towards external objects, and consider the operation of causes, we are never able, in a single instance, to discover any power or necessary connexion; any quality, which binds the effect to the cause, and renders the one an infallible consequence of the other. ” “ There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. ” “ If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience. ” “ ...the senses alone are not implicitly to be depended on. We must correct their evidence by reason, and by considerations, derived from the nature of the medium, the distance of the object, and the disposition of the organ, in order to render them, within their sphere, the proper criteria of truth and falsehood. ” “ Everything flows and nothing stays. ” “ Experience only teaches us, how one event constantly follows another; without instructing us in the secret connexion, which binds them together, and renders them inseparable. ” “ When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics. ” “ I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute. ” “ The most important part of you is your mind (not your brain - the brain is the hardware and the mind creates the software). Care for your mind, make friends with it, always feed it healthy food, engage it in positive activity, exercise it with knowledge and wisdom. Like a garden returns fragrance and beauty according to the care invested, so your mind will repay you with thoughts, ideas and visions of great beauty when tended and invested with care. Your mind is not made of matter but it does matter what you give it and what you create with it. Where your mind goes, you go. What your mind creates becomes your destiny. ” “ You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you. ” “ I maintain also that substances, whether material or immaterial, cannot be conceived in their bare essence without any activity, activity being of the essence of substance in general. ” “ When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. ” “ Be aware what you wish for, for dreams and wishes come true. ” “ Nothing can be created from nothing. ” “ A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy meta physicians. ” “ Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation. ” “ Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly. ” “ I'm astounded by people who want to know the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. ” “ Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct. ” “ Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. ” “ The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf. ” “ I have found power in the mysteries of thought. ” “ Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God. ” “ All is divine, all is God, and unity is divinity. ” “ You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle. ” “ It is allowed on all hands that there is no known connexion between the sensible qualities and the secret powers; and consequently, that the mind is not led to form such a conclusion concerning their constant and regular conjunction, by anything which it knows of their nature. ” “ We then call the one object, Cause; the other, Effect. We suppose that there is some connexion between them; some power in the one, by which it infallibly produces the other, and operates with the greatest certainty and strongest necessity. ” “ The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all. ” “ It is impossible, therefore, that any arguments from experience can prove this resemblance of the past to the future; since all these arguments are founded on the supposition of that resemblance. Let the course of things be allowed hitherto ever so regular; that alone, without some new argument or inference, proves not that, for the future, it will continue so. ” “ Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself. ” “ The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil. ” “ As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big. ” “ I agree with you that it is important to examine our presuppositions, thoroughly and once for all, in order to establish something solid. For I hold that it is only when we can prove all that we bring forward that we perfectly understand the thing under consideration. I know that the common herd takes little pleasure in these researches, but I know also that the common herd take little pains thoroughly to understand things. ” “ A distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man's imagination under pretext of its being a clear and distinct intellection. ” “ Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion ” “ It follows from what we have just said, that the natural changes of monads come from an internal principle, and that change is continual in each one. … Now this connection of all created things with each, and of each with all the rest, means that each simple substance has relations which express all the others, each created monad represents the whole universe. ” “ I say then, that, even after we have experience of the operations of cause and effect, our conclusions from that experience are not founded on (a priori) reasoning, or any process of the understanding. ” “ I do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me. ” “ A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what by two, what by makes, and what by four. For asking such questions metaphysicians are supported in oriental luxury in the universities, and respected as educated and intelligent men. ” “ It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes. ” “ Turn to God and look for God in your own heart. Realize that this is the real you, the spark of divinity that is everything. ” “ All arguments concerning existence are founded on the relation of cause and effect; that our knowledge of that relation is derived entirely from experience; and all our experimental conclusions proceed upon the supposition that the future will be conformable to the past. .... Without the influence of custom, we should be entirely ignorant of every matter of fact beyond what is immediately present to the memory and senses. ” “ We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far. ” “ To create something new, or to keep receiving more of something you have already gotten, get some paper and pens and write a thank you to the universe. ” “ An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men. ” “ What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know. ” “ One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf. ” “ I have no reason for believing the existence of matter. I have no immediate intuition thereof: neither can I immediately, from any sensations, ideas, notions, actions or passions infer an unthinking, unperceiving, inactive substance - either by probable deduction or necessary consequence. ” “ If chance is defined as an event produced by random motion without any causal nexus, I would say that there is no such thing as chance. ” “ I am one of those people who have prepared my life well. ” “ When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state. ” “ Indeed in general I hold that there is nothing truer than happiness, and nothing happier and sweeter than truth. ” “ I shall venture to affirm, as a general proposition, which admits of no exception, that the knowledge of this relation is not, in any instance, attained by reasonings a priori; but arises entirely from experience, when we find that any particular objects are constantly conjoined with each other. ” “ Nothing endures but change. ” “ Thoughts are more powerful than actions because they are the creators of actions. You have to keep in mind that the thought-waves of your good wishes and pure feelings, your vibrations of peace and love, can once again bring harmony in nature and happiness in the world. ” “ Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can. ” “ When I say that you are gods and goddesses I mean that your possibility is infinite, your potentiality is infinite. ” “ Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so ” “ Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak. ” “ To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. ” “ It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self. ” “ Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is ” “ Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power. ” “ After your death you will be what you were before your birth. ” “ Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible. ” “ By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. ” “ I must confess that a man is guilty of unpardonable arrogance who concludes, because an argument has escaped his own investigation, that therefore it does not really exist. I must also confess that, though all the learned, for several ages, should have employed themselves in fruitless search upon any subject, it may still, perhaps, be rash to conclude positively that the subject must, therefore, pass all human comprehension. ” |
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