#metaphysics

"A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it."

"Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun."

"The map is not the territory."

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

"The menu is not the meal."

"Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?"

"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"

"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."

"Time is the Mind of Space."

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

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

"Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you."

"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."

"Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth."

"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."

"belief is the death of intelligence."