#metaphysics

"Theology, philosophy, metaphysics, and quantum physics are merely ways for God to have his smart people believe in him"

"The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color. In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward."

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

"I've often thought that there isn't any "I"at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a delusion."

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

"...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable."

"if being is many, it must be both like and unlike, and this is impossible, for neither can the like be unlike, nor the unlike like"

"In meetings philosophy might work,on the field practicality works."

"The menu is not the meal."

"We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself."

"The sun symbolizes the Divine intelligence; the empty vastness of space symbolizes the Divine All-Possibility and also the Divine immutability; a bird symbolizes the soul; a tree symbolizes the grades of being; and water symbolizes knowledge and rain revelation."

"In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded."

"What is this slow blue dream of living, and this fevered death by dreaming?"

"...reality is always plural and mutable."

"If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever."

"What is more precious: a thousand answers derived from one question? Or, one answer…from a thousand questions?"

"A photograph shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy."

"Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. The fundamental conceptions of psychology are practically very clear to us, but theoretically they are very confused, and one easily makes the obscurest assumptions in this science without realizing, until challenged, what internal difficulties they involve."

"The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without: to follow one's own path, not that of the crowd."

"One possibility is: God is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself."