One possibility is: God is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself.
Lee SmolinTags: science christian cosmology physics theology metaphysics
One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes’ argument “I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used rightly, is the awareness of pure consciousness, not directed at any fact or action. In fact the I is not necessary here, since it is never united directly to consciousness. One can even imagine a pure and self-aware consciousness which thinks of itself as impersonal spontaneity.
Jean-Paul SartreTags: science ethics philosophy psychology logic metaphysics ontology
Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.
Henri-Frédéric AmielTags: metaphysics
I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain.
René DescartesTags: science ethics philosophy psychology logic metaphysics ontology
For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?
George OrwellTags: science ethics philosophy psychology logic metaphysics ontology
You are as prone to love, as the sun is to shine.
Thomas TraherneTags: metaphysics
Origin of man now proved.—Metaphysics must flourish.—He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.
Charles DarwinTags: evolution metaphysics darwinism
[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
Samuel ButlerTags: poetry metaphysics solipsism
You look like you bin whupped with a ugly stick.
Bo DiddleyTags: metaphysics
Don't live by my words, don't die by them, chew them slowly digest them, and smile if they give nourishment to your soul.
Stanley Victor PaskavichTags: life truth peace belief revelation metaphysics tranquility
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